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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Machuinn Alternative Name: Lawer's Mill
Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Pitlochry Nearest Village: Fearnan
Map Ref: NN6820140156 Landranger Map Number: 51
Latitude: 56.534877N Longitude: 4.144681W
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

4 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

5 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.

3 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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**Machuim** submitted by Nick : NN682402 The circle looking south west. The only decent parking space is at the horn carver's shop at Lawers, but there's a very unfriendly notice saying it's £5 to park there if you're not visiting the shop... Welcome to Perthshire - not! There is a farm gate further up the road if you want to take the risk. This is not a typical Perthshire circle, it has more of an Aberdeen feel t... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stone Circle, cup marked stone and cist in Perthshire

The circle looking south west. The only decent parking space is at the horn carver's shop at Lawers, but there's a very unfriendly notice saying it's £5 to park there if you're not visiting the shop... Welcome to Perthshire - not! There is a farm gate further up the road if you want to take the risk. This is not a typical Perthshire circle, it has more of an Aberdeen feel to it. Somewhat disrupted, and with some field clearance boulders in the centre, it has the remains of a kerb round about, and sits on a slight platform. Perched high above the loch, the views are absolutely breathtaking. A definite must-see on a sunny day!

For more information on this site, see Canmore ID 24537, an extract of which reads: "This stone circle stands on a low rise in improved pasture. It appears to have been constructed on top of an earlier cairn, which measures 7.3m from E to W by 7m transversely and 0.65m in height, and whose surface is partly obscured by dumps of recent field-cleared stones. The circle measures 6.2m from NE to SW by 5.8m overall, and probably comprised seven large erratic boulders set on edge around the cairn's flat top. Four stones remain standing and three have fallen; two additional stones, much smaller than the others though also earthfast, and which lie between the orthostats in the NW and NE arcs, may be no more than field clearance. The stones appear to be graded in height, from 1.4m in the SW arc to 1m on the NE, and all present their broader and more regular faces outwards. One stone is noteworthy for having a broad band of quartz, and two stones are decorated with cupmarks. One of the cup marked stones, in the NW arc, has two shallow cups on its external face, each measuring 30mm in diameter, and another on its internal face, measuring 50mm in diameter; the other, in the SW arc, has one faint cup, measuring 45mm in diameter, and two possible cups, all on its internal face."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for Machuim, Lawers, Loch Tay, Perthshire, which gives directions for finding this stone circle together with a brief archaeology & history, a photograph and a plan of the circle.
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**Machuinn** submitted by postman : Zooming over this difficult to appreciate stone circle to a susidiary hill of Ben Lawers. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:

NN6840 : Machuim stone circle, Lawers by Elliott Simpson — by Elliott Simpson
©2014(licence)

NN6840 : Machuim stone circle, Lawers by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NN6840 : Lower Duallin by Richard Webb — by Richard Webb
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NN6839 : Farmland Loch Tay by wfmillar — by wfmillar
©2010(licence)

NN6839 : Field near Lawers by Steven Brown — by Steven Brown
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