<< Our Photo Pages >> St Colmac Cottages Stone Circle - Stone Circle in Scotland in Isle of Bute
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: St Colmac Cottages Stone Circle Alternative Name: Ettrick BayCountry: Scotland County: Isle of Bute Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Rothesay Nearest Village: Kildavanan
Map Ref: NS044668 Landranger Map Number: 63
Latitude: 55.854602N Longitude: 5.126566W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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Anne T saw from a distance on 9th Oct 2017 - their rating: Amb: 2 Access: 4 St Colmac Cottages Stone Circle: Defeated by a pond between us and the stone circle, a large heap of cow dung by the gate, heavy mist, and running out of time before our ferry back, we stopped at the gate and photographed this from a distance.
We had tried to see the standing stone near Calmac Bridge, but the farmers were moving a large herd of cattle into the field, and we would have had to wait for ages. Rapidly running out of time before we needed to get back to Rounsay for the ferry, we pressed on to St. Colmac Cottages, where we parked at the entrance to the field with the stone circle. Here, the farmer has created a fenced walkway along the side of the road.
The walkway, however, was deep in wet slurry from the cows having just been moved down this path, and the field was sodden. Arriving at the gate into the field, the farmer had also dumped a whole load of cow manure just the other side of the gate, making it incredibly uninviting to walk to the stone circle, which we could just see through the mist in the field.
At this point, not having wellies, I realised I’d rather see the standing stone inscribed with a cross before we left the island, so we waded back to the car and set off just down the road to the ruined church at Calmac Bridge.
BolshieBoris visited on 1st Aug 1996 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Ambience: 2.5 Access: 3.5
The circle is enclosed within a plantation bank measuring about 33m in internal diameter. The circle is 130m south-east of St Colmac Cottages and used to stand within the remains of a small beech tree plantation.
Canmore site no. 40338.
Note: Stone circle has a lucky escape in the recent storms, lucky the wind wasn't blowing the other way!
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