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Cat Cairn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Cat Cairn submitted by cosmic on 27th Sep 2004. Cat Cairn from North
This is one of four prehistoric cairns on Tullos Hill just south of Aberdeen
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Log Text: The easiest one to reach from the town.
Crab's Cairn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
Crab's Cairn submitted by Creative Commons on 29th Nov 2011. Crab's Cairn in Aberdeenshire. Copyright George Wilson (http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/7014), re-used under Creative Commons licence.
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Log Text: Must be harder to reach by now owing to a newish fence erected along the length of the hill.
Dunnideer Fort
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Vitrified Fort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Dunnideer Fort submitted by cosmic on 29th Apr 2006. Dunnideer from South
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Log Text: Used to live in Insch so I could see the hill every day! Great walk up to the top and I like looking out for the old post hole in the vitrified wall on the north side.
Tap o'Noth
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Tap o'Noth submitted by Cosmic on 4th Jan 2004. South side
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Log Text: Visited loads of times. Great place, great views, great walls, great walk up.
Wardhouse
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Log Text: Picturesque setting.
Auchlee Circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 2nd Jan 2012. My rating: Access 3
Auchlee Circle submitted by cosmic on 30th Jul 2005. Upright stones.
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Log Text: Lost to the gorse - didn't bring shears or a flamethrower, so couldn't get in.
Wantonwells
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Wantonwells submitted by cosmic on 30th Apr 2006. Wantonwells with Dunnideer behind. In his book "The Modern Antiquarian" Julian Cope argues for Dunnideer as the focal point for local stone circles.
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Log Text: Visited many times. Impressive views of Dunnydeer and Bennachie.
Huntly
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2010. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Huntly submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Aug 2014. The paving stone inscription between them reads:
"The Stannin' Steens
7th century
The left one is a Pictish Symbol Stone"
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Log Text: Two small stones remaining out of about six. One used to have Pictish symbols (now lost to erosion). They stand beneath the statue in the town square.
Ellon.
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Ellon. submitted by Flickr on 31st Oct 2015. DSC05006 From North Image copyright: ewenrun, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Log Text: Brief visit as we looked at how unoriginal it appeared...
Braehead Circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Mar 2008. My rating: Access 3
Braehead Farm submitted by cosmic on 13th Nov 2005. The entrance?
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Log Text: Stopped to soon at a clearnce cairn, didn't know about the recumbent over the hill!
Ardlair (Circle)
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Ardlair (Circle) submitted by cosmic on 22nd Oct 2007. Ardlair RSC from North-West
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Log Text: I think Julian Cope described the recumbent as looking like a 'smashed tank' or somesuch similar thing. Definitely appropriate as the ruins of the rest of the site looks like a battlefield.
Aberlemno
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Angus)
Visited: Yes on 30th May 2005. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Aberlemno submitted by rldixon on 15th May 2009. Aberlemno stone taken in Infra red july 2007
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Log Text: Picturesque setting despite being right by the road!
Kilmartin Churchyard
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2005. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Kilmartin Churchyard submitted by Ghriogair on 16th Jul 2009. Kilmartin Churchyard
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Log Text: Pottered around and looked at the gravestones.
Dunadd Fort
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Dunadd Fort submitted by andy_h on 6th Mar 2003. Footstone at Dunadd Fort, Kilmartin Valley, Argyll.
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Log Text: Saw the footprint and watched the sunset.
Brae of Achnahaird
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Log Text: Couldn't see it but I don't think I was trying all that hard.
Clachtoll Broch
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Clachtoll Broch submitted by lynswan on 13th Jul 2008. Photo of Clachtoll Broch showing the entrance and large triangular lintel stone over the doorway.
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Log Text: Been up here a couple of times, first in a downpour and the second in the sun! There is an ancient drystane dyke running out of Clachtoll near the broch. The broch itself is a bit of a mess but a good visit all the same.
Dun Telve
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2005. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Dun Telve submitted by Andy B on 14th Apr 2010. From the Gleann Beag road near Corrary.
Copyright John Allan and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: Brief visit in the rain. Grey grey greyness...
Sueno's Stone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Class III Pictish Cross Slab
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 5
Sueno's Stone submitted by Cosmic on 9th Nov 2003. Another view of the Sueno Pictish Stone at NJ046595. The largest stone we've ever seen - enclosed in perspex case to protect it - only yards away from A96 Dual carriageway and yet how many people ever notice it?
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Log Text: Gigantinormous.
Broch of Breckness
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2008. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 3
Broch of Breckness submitted by howar on 29th May 2004. slab-sided drain, L-R 7th closeup.HY225093
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Log Text: Couldn't see anything...
Barnhouse Stone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3
Barnhouse Stone submitted by howar on 30th Jul 2010. stone with Maes Howe aligned, Setter tumuli on Syra Dale behind Maes Howe continuing line
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Log Text: Looks good from far off, wish I had time to get in close.