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Photo Pages: Machrie Moor 1. - Stone Circle in Scotland in Isle of Arran
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Submitted by kelpie on Friday, 02 August 2002 Page Views: 2804
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 Site Name: Machrie Moor 1. Country: Scotland County: Isle of Arran Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Brodick Nearest Village: Blackwaterfoot
Map Ref: NR91193238 Landranger Map Number: 68
Latitude: 55.540317N Longitude: 5.310996W
Condition:| 5 | Perfect | | 4 | Almost Perfect | | 3 | Reasonable but with some damage | | 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site | | 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks | | 0 | No data. | | -1 | Completely destroyed |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access | | 4 | Short walk on a footpath | | 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk | | 2 | A long walk | | 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates | | 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map | | 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map | | 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Stone Circle in Arran (Argyll)
This circle consists of alternating sandstone and granite boulders. NR 91198 32389
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 Machrie Moor 1. submitted by AngieLake
Slipping this one in on MM1 site page as it is in that vicinity.
This record sheet made up from 3 photos taken on site in 2003.
Bottom left, view towards MM2; bottom right, view towards 150 degs, showing track heading E; top view looking 30 degs. All above from site of 'significant missing standing stone', dowsed position 7-8 paces from path.
 Machrie Moor 1. submitted by AngieLake
Slipping this fallen stone in on the MM1 site page, as it is in that vicinity. It lays across the track due east of Machrie Moor 2.
Record sheet compiled from two photos taken on site in 2003. The left one shows its position in relation to MM2. The right one is looking east.
 Machrie Moor 1. submitted by AngieLake
Machrie Moor 1 from Machrie Moor 11 circle.
Machrie Moor 11 was only discovered properly in recent years... Burl started in 1978/79, but bad weather put paid to more work. Then Alison Haggarty supervised the 1985 excavations with great results.
See info found on website pages http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_121/121_051_094.pdf
Machrie Moor, Arran: rece
 Machrie Moor 1. submitted by AngieLake
Machrie Moor 1. This view from approx West. The northern stone is at extreme left here. The small one centre foreground was measured as 280 degs of centre, and the large rectangular block to its rear left was 65 degs of centre.
Interestingly, originally two concentric timber circles here, with a horseshoe setting of 5 posts facing NW in the centre.
A smaller timber circle within the main
 Machrie Moor 1. submitted by AngieLake
Machrie Moor 1. The large leaning stone in the centre of this pic is the one I recorded at N of centre of the circle.
Very exciting findings by Burl and other archaeologists that there were once timber circles and a horseshoe setting of wood posts here.
June 2002
 Machrie Moor 1. submitted by tyrianterror
Bealtaine 1985 at Machrie Moor,Arran.
Pic I took whilst attending a Bealtaine festival on Arran in 1985.
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Re: Machrie Moor 1 (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Thursday, 11 September 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | Admins, please note that Machrie Moor 10 pics have got onto the MM1 site page. [Should be with MM10/Moss Farm Road circle].
(Also a MM2 pic here) | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Machrie Moor 1 (Score: 1)
by AngieLake on Thursday, 11 September 2008
(User Info | Send a Message) | A great source for information on these circles (MM1 and its neighbour MM11) can be found here:
http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_121/121_051_094.pdf
Machrie Moor, Arran: recent excavations at two stone circles. By Alison Haggarty.
Ms Haggarty tells us about the different Phases found during excavation at this site, which was finally excavated in an oblong area from SW (Circle 1) to NE (Circle 11) encompassing both circles at one dig.
I was interested in two of those featured phases:
Phase Two:
The postholes of pre-exisiting timber circles were found at each circle's site.
In the case of Circle 1, two concentric circles were found, and in their centre was a horseshoe of 5 posts, with its opening facing NW. Just outside the opening of the horseshoe, yet still inside the main circle of posts were the postholes of a smaller timber circle, which may possibly have pre-dated the main timber circle.
Between the two circles (MM1 and MM11) and to the North of MM1, was a single large posthole.
Phase Four:
The erection of the stone circles very close to the original postholes of one of the timber circles in MM1 and between the pairs of timber posts of the circle at MM11.
I wondered if in dowsing MM1 circle, I'd inadvertently picked up on the earliest phase, when timber circles stood there? Maybe that would explain why the movements are labyrinth-like in layout?
In another website, http://www.castlekirk.co.uk/history.html , we hear how (Quote:)
"First, during the Neolithic period, several timber circles were erected on the moor in the general area where some of the stone circles now lie. The main wooden circle" [I guess the writer means MM1] "consisted of about fifty tall posts with an inner ring of taller posts in a horse-shoe formation. This wood circle was in use for many hundreds of years, during which time other timber circles were also created. No remains of these timber circles can be seen today. What can be seen are the stone monuments that were built to replace them."
(End quote)
Bearing in mind that there was a large post hole just outside the North arc of MM1 circle, I wondered if that was perhaps a feature of a timber circle that might have one day preceded MM2, where the 3 huge stones still remain to intrigue us? My ritual dowsing plan there shows a diversion during a clockwise (possible ritual dance?) movement, towards the N and back to the outer arc again. It also shows an area of horseshoe-shaped movement in the centre of the circle, possibly inside such a setting.
Going back to Moss Farm Road circle (and poss. later cairn), perhaps this was once a timber setting, hence the 'clockwork' labyrinth-type moves recorded in dowsing plan?
I can't prove my findings, but hope they may somehow help us to understand these sites. Maiden Castle's Romano-British temple and its nearby Oval Shrine seem to fit in with the dowsed ritual movements there. | [ Reply to This ]
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