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Backhill Of Drachlaw
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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Bellman's Wood
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bellman's Wood submitted by cosmic on 4th Jul 2008. Bellman's from South
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Huntly
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 1 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: Rather sad
Midmar Kirk S
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Midmar Kirk S submitted by krautrock on 31st Jul 2010. Midmar Kirk S, Recumbent Stone Circle on a churchyard.
June 2010.
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Tomnaverie
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Tomnaverie submitted by SandyG on 5th Dec 2013. Taken on a beautiful clear day with the first dusting of snow on Lochnagar in the background.
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Log Text: Love this stone circle, so glad the quarry was filled in
King Arthur's Round Table
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
King Arthur's Round Table submitted by h_fenton on 1st Oct 2010. King Arthur's Round Table.
I tried to fly the kite here but the wind was too inconsistent to safely get the camera high enough. Here instead of a kite I used a carp fishing pole, with a camera attachment on the end to lift my camera higher (6-7 metres).
10 September 2010
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Mayburgh
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Mayburgh submitted by wildtalents on 15th May 2024. The henge banks at Mayburgh were built up mainly using cobbles like those surrounding the one remaining megalith at the site. It's a really large structure and may have been a meeting point for many hundreds of people at a time. These days mainly sheep throng the henge. Image from spring 2023.
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Stanton Drew Great Circle
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2023. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Stanton Drew Great Circle submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Apr 2009. Stanton Drew Great Circle 01/04/09
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Log Text: I have loved checking this site out over the years. Recently, thinking about water made me wonder if it was a sacred site arrived at by boat and now I've been pondering stone circles as places where bodies were left to be eaten by scavengers I want to go back and see how that fits. Don't forget the bit by the pub too!
Cowiemuir
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cowiemuir 022 submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. You can just make out a large stone in the gorse to the middle left of this picture
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Arradoul Stone Circle
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Would like to visit
Sandend Bay A
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Westertown
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Westertown submitted by thewonderer on 1st Feb 2004. Grid Ref:NJ586447
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Kimmonity
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rothiemay
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Rothiemay submitted by thewonderer on 1st Feb 2004.
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Log Text: Had to scale a gate. Parked by the gate but would prob park by the nearby houses if I visited again since the cars they drive so fast.
Jenny's Well
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Jenny's Well submitted by KiwiBetsy on 12th Sep 2006. Water flows from a pipe in a curved ornamental wall with ‘Jenny’s Well’ spelled out in pebbles.
It is uncertain just who Jenny was but one source suggests that she was a lunatic woman. In the middle of the 20th century, pins and other small gifts were left at the well on the 1st of May.
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Log Text: Lovely spot by the sea, visited in 2024.
Thorax
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Thorax submitted by cosmic on 5th Jul 2008. Thorax from West
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Yonder Bognie
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Yonder Bognie Warden submitted by cosmic on 22nd Mar 2004. Yonder_Bognie at NJ601458 in Aberdeenshire is rated by Burl as a Class 3 Circle but I felt it deserves more due to its impressive recumbent.
The recumbent at about nine feet long by five feet high is almost flat on top and is one of the most impressive I've seen. The circle especially to the west side seems to have some rogue stones dumped into it - there is a profusion of stones around the perimeter of the neighbouring fields!
The owner lives at Kirkland Farm and seemed happy for me to vi...
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