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<< Our Photo Pages >> Backhill Of Drachlaw - Stone Circle in Scotland in Aberdeenshire

Submitted by Cosmic on Tuesday, 23 March 2004  Page Views: 9788

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Backhill Of Drachlaw
Country: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Banff  Nearest Village: Turriff
Map Ref: NJ67294633  Landranger Map Number: 29
Latitude: 57.505977N  Longitude: 2.547526W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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soulsurfer visited on 18th Sep 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Sadly overgrown and fenced off requiring some effort to locate and visit despite being near a road.

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Backhill Of Drachlaw
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic : Backhill of Drachlaw at NJ673463 in Aberdeenshire is rated as an Grade One Circle by Burl but personally on this trip I consider Yonder Bognie as more impressive. The stones are unusual in being basaltic with veins of pebbles in them - see close-up. The farmer admitted to having dumped a rogue stone in the circle - I'll have to go back for another look! Just under 300m away to the NNE is th... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Backhill of Drachlaw at NJ673463 in Aberdeenshire is rated as an Grade One Circle by Burl but personally on this trip I consider Yonder Bognie as more impressive. The stones are unusual in being basaltic with veins of pebbles in them - see close-up.

The farmer admitted to having dumped a rogue stone in the circle - I'll have to go back for another look!

Just under 300m away to the NNE is the huge Carlin Stone reckoned by Fred Cole to be the recumbent of another circle - personally I think it's too big (tall) to be a recumbent.
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Backhill of Drachlaw
Backhill of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic : Backhill of Drachlaw at NJ673463 in Aberdeenshire is rated as an Grade One Circle by Burl but personally on this trip I consider Yonder Bognie as more impressive. The stones are unusual in being basaltic with veins of pebbles in them - see close-up. The farmer admitted to having dumped a rogue stone in the circle - I'll have to go back for another look! Just under 300m away to the NNE is th... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Backhill of Drachlaw
Backhill of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic (Vote or comment on this photo)

Backhill Of Drachlaw
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic (Vote or comment on this photo)

Backhill Of Drachlaw
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by lembas : backhill of drachlaw stonecircle, now fenced in and rather overgrown with dockens, between the two mains stones in the distance is the Garbel standing stone (Vote or comment on this photo)

Backhill Of Drachlaw
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by soulsurfer : Sadly overgrown.

Backhill Of Drachlaw
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by DrewParsons : The circle photographed from the road. September 2012.

Backhill of Drachlaw
Backhill of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic : Backhill of Drachlaw at NJ673463 in Aberdeenshire is rated as an Grade One Circle by Burl but personally on this trip I consider Yonder Bognie as more impressive. The stones are unusual in being basaltic with veins of pebbles in them - see close-up. The farmer admitted to having dumped a rogue stone in the circle - I'll have to go back for another look! Just under 300m away to the NNE is th... (1 comment)

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