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Aberscross
Date Added: 6th Sep 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Aberscross submitted by Tom_Bullock on 19th Feb 2005. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM.
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Log Text: Easy to get to, 30 metres from the road. Park in a lay-by and walk through a gate, up the hill, near the burn.
Achavanich
Date Added: 19th Dec 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 9th Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Achavanich submitted by cosmic on 10th Oct 2007. View of setting from Cairn
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Log Text: A magnificent and unusual stone setting with very easy access.
Achvarasdal Burn
Date Added: 19th Dec 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 16th Dec 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Achvarasdal Burn submitted by soulsurfer on 19th Dec 2012. The side edge
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Log Text: Marked as 'Clach Clais an Tuirc' on the map.
Arbor Low 1
Date Added: 29th Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Arbor Low 1 submitted by soulsurfer on 24th Jun 2011. Arbor Low is a wonderful site.
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Log Text: None
Aviemore
Date Added: 29th Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Aviemore submitted by soulsurfer on 24th Jun 2011. Easy access in the middle of a housing estate.
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Log Text: None
Backhill Of Drachlaw
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic on 22nd Mar 2004. Backhill of Drachlaw at NJ673463 in Aberdeenshire is rated as an Grade One Circle by Burl but personally on this trip I consider Yonder Bognie as more impressive. The stones are unusual in being basaltic with veins of pebbles in them - see close-up.
The farmer admitted to having dumped a rogue stone in the circle - I'll have to go back for another look!
Just under 300m away to the NNE is the huge Carlin Stone reckoned by Fred Cole to be the recumbent of another circle - personally I think...
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Log Text: Sadly overgrown and fenced off requiring some effort to locate and visit despite being near a road.
Bruiach
Date Added: 15th Apr 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Bruiach submitted by Tom_Bullock on 22nd Feb 2005. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM.
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Log Text: Very easy access, right by the side of the road at NH 499 414.
Cairn Riv
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cairn Riv submitted by cosmic on 22nd Mar 2004. The Carlin Stone at NJ674465 in Aberdeenshire is just under 300m NNE of the Stone Circle at Backhill of Drachlaw. Fred Coles considered it to be the recumbent of another stone circle but at over 8 feet tall this seems unlikely to me.
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Log Text: Large stone, easy to walk to, just of a country road.
Carn Urnan
Date Added: 6th Sep 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carn Urnan submitted by soulsurfer on 6th Sep 2013. Looking towards the farm house.
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Log Text: Access via the farm track is very easy. The croft house is currently unused (Sept 2013).
Castlerigg
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Castlerigg submitted by rldixon on 7th Jan 2009. castlerigg taken about 11am dec 2008
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Log Text: One of the best for location.
Clachan An Diridh
Date Added: 29th Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Clachan An Diridh submitted by soulsurfer on 24th Jun 2011. Four-poster(one missing) made from local sandstone. Worth the walk.
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Log Text: None
Corrimony
Date Added: 18th Jul 2012
Site Type: Clava Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Corrimony submitted by LivingRocks on 28th Jul 2005. Standing stones in the north west arc.
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Log Text: Brilliant site with very easy access.
Culburnie
Date Added: 15th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 15th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Culburnie submitted by soulsurfer on 15th Apr 2013. The stone circle surrounds a cairn. Easy access.
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Log Text: By the side of the road, in someone's garden but easy to access. Strangely atmospheric in a nice setting this circle around a cairn has some nice stones including one very impressive stone about 6 feet high on the SW side.
Daviot Ring Cairn
Date Added: 22nd Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Daviot Ring Cairn submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Daviot Cairn & Circle NH727411. Surviving part of Clava type cairn and outer circle.
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Log Text: Not far from the road but a bit tricky to get to. Park in a lay-by next to a gate. Climb over the gate and go up the slope, over the fence and then across or around the field.
Delfour
Date Added: 29th Jul 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Delfour submitted by soulsurfer on 24th Jun 2011. Nice setting and easy to get to.
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Log Text: None
Druidtemple
Date Added: 22nd Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Druidtemple submitted by LizH on 23rd Aug 2006. The tallest pillar (2.9 m) which may be aligned with the midwinter sunset
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Log Text: An easy site to get to but you have to go through the farm. I asked at the house and they were quite happy to point me in the right direction and let me walk through.
Well worth the trip and one particularly impressive large stone.
Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by rldixon on 27th Nov 2007. Easter Aquhorthies recumbent stone circle aberdeenshire taken 2007
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Log Text: Good circle just a short walk from the car park of a dead-end lane
Edderton 1
Date Added: 24th Jan 2015
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 19th Oct 2014. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Edderton 1 submitted by NickiMacRae on 19th Sep 2011. The stone in Winter, within it's protective fencing.
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Log Text: Easy to walk to, across a field.
Gask Cairn
Date Added: 12th Aug 2012
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 27th Jul 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Gask Cairn submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Gask Cairn & Circle NH679358. One of the larges surviving Clava type cairns. A 3mtr by 3mtr slab only 20cms in depth defines the SW entrance.
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Log Text: Very easy to access and a nice site. The largest stone is about 3m high and very impressive. It sits on the south west side... aligned to the winter solstice perhaps?
Hill o'Many Stanes
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 16th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Hill o'Many Stanes submitted by h_fenton on 18th Jun 2011. Hill o'Many Stanes, a Kite Aerial Photograph taken from the north.
9 May 2011
I've uploaded a photo with such large dimensions because it is so difficult to see these small stones
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Log Text: Best of the many stone rows in Caithness... and we still don't really know why they were built.