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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lower Camster Stones
Country: Scotland County: Highlands Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Wick Nearest Village: Ulbster
Map Ref: ND2599345842 Landranger Map Number: 11
Latitude: 58.394694N Longitude: 3.26771W
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

2 Ambience:

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3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
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3 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
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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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markj99 visited on 25th Jun 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Lower Camster Standing Stone are a curious contrast to the Grey Cairns of Camster located c. 1 mile N of the Cairns in flat moorland. The N and S Standing Stones are now dwarfed by Wind Turbines but they still retain a sense of antiquity. The W stone which is adjacent to the road is somewhat less convincing.

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**Lower Camster Stones** submitted by steveco : Camster Stone Circle ND260459. Remains of Lower Camster Stone Circle. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Standing Stones in Highland. Professor Alexander Thom reported three small erect stones to the OS in 1970, although I only saw one. That nearest the road is some 30ft distant from it. It is a low stone standing 2ft 10ins above ground, measuring 3ft 9ins in breadth and 10ins in thickness, and faces NNE-SSW. Some 170ft N of it is another similar slab, 2ft 8ins high, 3ft 5ins broad, and 10ins thick, facing NNW-SSE. The latter stone does not seem to be very deeply set. It is not certain that these stones form, or are part of, a prehistoric monument.

Canmore site no. 8677.

Access: North of the well-known Grey Cairns of Camster. On the E side of the road from Watten to Lybster, slightly N of the point where a track branches off to Camster.
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