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Castle Farm standing stone
Date Added: 9th Apr 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by caradoc68 on 5th Dec 2011. NM 911 402, Castle Farm, Barcaldine. ID NM94sw3...
This standing stone formerly stood about 3.1 metres from the most westerly of the three cairns described under NM94SW 10. When it fell, it was re-erected on its present site (Smith 1879). As it now stands, it measures 0.45 by 0.15 metres at its base and stands 2.1 metres in height.
RCAHMS 1975.
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Altlarie
Date Added: 21st Jun 2021
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jun 2021. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 4
Altlarie submitted by Megalithicmatt on 21st Jun 2021. Top of the hillock taken in infrared.
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Log Text: This rounded hillock lies within Newtonmore's Highland Folk Museum. The site is free to access. One lower side of the hillock has been truncated by the railway. The top is flattened off with the vague outline of a building on top out of which trees are growing. There are some exposed stones on the east side of the hill but otherwise nothing obvious left to indicate this once had a cairn and standing stones.
Dun da Lamh
Date Added: 26th Sep 2020
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Dun da Lamh submitted by cosmic on 28th Sep 2006. The ridge
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Corry chambered cairn
Date Added: 1st Nov 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Corry chambered cairn submitted by RichardC on 19th Jan 2017. Interior of Corry cairn, from The Gentleman's Magazine, 1841: "...the Cairn, which is circular,and measure 125 paces round the base. It is reported to have been of a conical shape within the memory of persons living ; but that the Btones which formed the apex have been carried away by the poor people to assist them in building their cot tages. However this may be, the Cairn is conical no longer, but flat at top ; and except here and there, where a ...
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Na Clachan Bhreige
Date Added: 27th Oct 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Na Clachan Bhreige submitted by hamilton on 26th May 2012. Na Clachan Bhreige Stone Circle, showing the three remaining upright stones.
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Sidhean Mor Dail A' Chaorainn
Date Added: 26th Sep 2020
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2016. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Sidhean Mor Dail A' Chaorainn submitted by Megalithicmatt on 14th Apr 2016. The circular enclosure on top.
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Dun Rodil
Date Added: 16th Sep 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Harris)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2015. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Log Text: Walked up from the curve in the road, the way was quite boggy. Didn't stay more than five minutes as it was very rainy and windy, so bad that there was a threat of being blown off the top!
Hard to discern much in the way of structure in the ruins, though there did appear to be a small semi-circular arrangement of stones nearby to the main ruin pile on the top of the hillock.
Dun Beag (Loch Slapin)
Date Added: 5th Jul 2014
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2014. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 3 Access 3
Dun Beag (Loch Slapin) submitted by megalithicmatt on 4th Jul 2014. Looking out into Loch Slapin from the Dun plateau.
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Log Text: The dun itself is not very recognisable until you're on top of it. There's a small stone shelter in the trees behind it (using stones robbed from the site?). Igneous dykes cut through the promontory offering a form of natural barrier defence to the north.
Fantastic views out into Torrin bay and the loch.
Suardal
Date Added: 5th Jul 2014
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 1st May 2014. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Suardal submitted by LivingRocks on 27th Jul 2005. The remains of the chamber.
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Log Text: Easily seen on the horizon when coming up Strath Suardal.
Clach na h'Annait
Date Added: 1st May 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Clach na h'Annait submitted by kelpie on 27th Jul 2002. This standing stone appears in a field just off the road to Elgol. Apparently there is little known of its history or why it bears a connection to Annait on the other side of the island. NG 58954 20295
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Memsie Burial Cairn
Date Added: 20th Apr 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Memsie Burial Cairn submitted by bobs on 25th Jan 2004. A fine Bronze Age burial cairn. The only survivor of three which originally stood here.
Grid Ref: NJ976620
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Log Text: Gigantic.
Strichen House
Date Added: 20th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Strichen House submitted by on 19th Jun 2002.
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Loudon Wood
Date Added: 20th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Loudon Wood submitted by krautrock on 9th Aug 2010. Loudon Wood. Recumbent Stone Circle. It looks like that anybody disturbed the left corner of the recumbent stone.
June 2010
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Log Text: Nice place to visit... if you can find it. First time to this circle - forgot to take the OS map (not good).
Note for next time - ignore the directional sign by the car park.
Aikey Brae
Date Added: 20th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Aikey Brae submitted by Klingon on 4th Feb 2005.
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Log Text: Lovely stone circle - very peaceful.
The Langstane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
The Langstane submitted by cosmic on 29th Mar 2004. The Langstane at NJ938059 is situated only 30m from one of Aberdeen's main thoroughfares at the junction of Dee Street and Lanstane Place. It is embedded into a recess at the back of a branch of a well known fastfood restaurant.
It appears close to its present site on G&W Paterson's 1746 map of Aberdeen but it is suspected that it may have been part of a stone circle on the West side of the Denburn. Another stone, the Crab Stane, appears on the same map.
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Log Text: Hard to miss when you're an Aberdonian. It's often thought that the Langstane and the nearby Crabstane have been given each other's names.
Nether Corskie Stone Circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Nether Corskie Stone Circle submitted by megalithicmatt on 15th Jan 2012. The stones are far bigger than they appear from the road: the western stone is 2.9m high and its partner is 2.1m.
The Great Crowns Of Stone gazetteer notes that the 'recumbent' lying between / behind them (not visible in this picture) was not present in surveys in 1902 and 1904, lending uncertainty to the site's classification and original configuration.
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Log Text: Woo! Massive stones! They look deceptively small from the road.
Castle Fraser circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Castle Fraser circle submitted by megalithicmatt on 15th Jan 2012. View of the recumbent setting from the WSW.
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Log Text: That's Fraser with an 's', not a 'z' and often called Balgorkar anyway. One of the stones was toppled by plough a couple of years ago but has since been re-erected. The same field has two other standing stones.
South Ley Lodge
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
South Ley Lodge submitted by megalithicmatt on 15th Jan 2012. The atmosphere of the site is somewhat overshadowed by the close proximity of an electricity substation and its many pylon lines.
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Log Text: More irritating pylon lines. The stones are unusually small.
South Fornet
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
South Fornet submitted by megalithicmatt on 15th Jan 2012. The two remaining stones standing.
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Log Text: On a hilltop with great views, this much-maligned site is a nice place to visit.
Lang Stane o' Craigearn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lang Stane o' Craigearn submitted by cosmic on 7th Mar 2004. Lang Stane o' Craigearn is at NJ723149. It is a very tall thin standing stone - at least 10 feet high. It is situated on top of a grassed mound behind a house.
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Log Text: Keep wanting to visit this: can see it from the road (it's huge!) but my 'driver' never wants to park nearby...