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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Wester Biggs (Dunblane) Alternative Name: Seven Stones (Auchterarder)Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Auchterarder Nearest Village: Blackford
Map Ref: NN86270608 Landranger Map Number: 58
Latitude: 56.233615N Longitude: 3.836275W
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 couldn't find on 13th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Wester Biggs Stone Circle, Near Dunblane: Returning from tea and cakes in Dunblane, we resumed our search for megalithic sites. Next stop, hopefully, a not-before-photographed stone circle, right by the side of the road.
Finding the telephone mast and driving a couple of hundred yards further on, we parked at NN 86368 06240 and walked back south along the road, armed with the Canmore listing on my phone and the GPS.
Despite an intensive search of the land east of the road around this point, we were unable to locate any stones amongst the tall heather. However, there was a circle of gras/vergetation which was different from any heather at almost exactly the grid reference given by Canmore, so I photographed ‘the spot’. Andrew thinks the stones may have been removed. Always possible, but I think we need to return when the shrubbery has died back.
This stone circle is recorded as Canmore site no. 25219, the latest entry from 1967 reading: "A small circle of stones was located within a cut-down plantation, at NN 8627 0608. The circle, about 5.5m in diameter, is formed by seven prostrate stones, varying in size from 1.5m long x 0.9m wide x 0.4m thick to 1.2m long x 0.8m thick x 0.3m wide; there is no indication of a cairn."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this stone circle - see their entry for Wester Biggs, Dunblane, Perthshire, which gives directions for finding this site together with local folklore and descriptions of the site from two 19th century publications.
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