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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Esslie The Greater Alternative Name: Eslie South
Country: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Banchory  Nearest Village: Strachan
Map Ref: NO71729159  Landranger Map Number: 38
Latitude: 57.014572N  Longitude: 2.46733W
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
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 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.
 3 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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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 3

Esslie The Greater
Esslie The Greater submitted by safesurfer65 : Esslie The Greater taken from above with a Quadcopter. Taken February 2015. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A recumbent stone circle in Aberdeenshire located 730m to the south of Eslie farmhouse. It encloses a heavily-robbed ring-cairn on a gentle north-facing slope. The ring-cairn measures 17.7m in diameter over all by 0.5m in maximum height and encloses a central court 6m in diameter;

At least eleven outer kerbstones and twelve inner kerbstones (up to 0.6m high) are visible. Source: Scotland's Places

Note: Esslie the Greater as seen from above by a Quadcopter
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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon : Esslie the greater taken july 2007 infra red (6 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon : Esslie the greater stone circle taken july 2007 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Esslie the Greater submitted by cosmic : Esslie Greater from the north

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Runemage : Esslie the Greater Taken from the roadside using a zoom, the clouds of midges made it impossible to get any closer. Visited around 2009 or earlier.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : I could stay here forever, well, at least a fortnight.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : recumbent and flankers

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Esslie The Greater submitted by megalithicmatt : Recumbent and flankers middle left.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon : Esslie the greater stone circle taken july 2007

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon

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Esslie The Greater submitted by rldixon : Esslie the Greater stone circle taken in Infrared june 2007 more to come soon in colour and infrared ;-) (2 comments)

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Esslie The Greater submitted by hamish : The circle seen from the road, the walk looks easy, don't be fooled.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by hamish : This is taken from the South, what a great site this is. The grass is a bit tussocky and there are a lot of loose stones about so be careful.

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Esslie the Greater submitted by cosmic : Esslie Greater from the south

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Esslie The Greater submitted by cosmic : Esslie Greater close up from the south

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : Ive wanted to come here for well over a decade, when I entered the circle I nearly wet myself, like an excited dog.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : Lovely day, great views, good stones.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : Inside the circle is a bit confusing, I didn't know most RSC's have ring cairns in them.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : Esslie the greater, with a name like that youve got to feel a bit sorry for Esslie the lesser, but it's a fair name.

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Esslie The Greater submitted by Postman : Zooming from Esslie the lesser

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Esslie The Greater - Thom's survey and classification by Andy B on Friday, 16 October 2015
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Alexander Thom B2/4 Class II Survey

Type I egg based on a 3, 4, 5, triangle . Perimeter 90.95 mr = 36.4 mr. Intermediate circle drawn with radius 11 my. Inner circle diameter uncertain. The flankers are inside the ring but exceptionally, the right hand is nearer the centre. The line to B2/5 shows the azimuth of the rising midsummer Sun.

http://megalithicscience.org/index.php/monuments/stone-circles/25-esslie-the-greater-kincardineshire-no-717916
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Esslie the Greater from above, taken with a Quadcopter by safesurfer65 on Thursday, 15 October 2015
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A link to a larger version of my photo of Esslie the Greater from above that was taken with a Quadcopter.
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Esslie The Greater on Street View by golux on Sunday, 04 April 2010
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Here is a view of the circle from Street View -

http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&q=57.0146604477,-2.46766019899(Esslie+The+Greater)&ie=UTF8&ll=57.014606,-2.465315&spn=0.003435,0.019269&z=16&layer=c&cbll=57.01461,-2.465322&panoid=0VHnVZG1XpSe-6joN4Rd2Q&cbp=11,271.33,,1,7.31

BTW on the Ordnance Survey map the name is Eslie not Esslie.

And also BTW did you know you can see Street View in 3D? (Requires red-green spectacles.)

cheers
Golux
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Re: Esslie The Greater by golux on Sunday, 04 April 2010
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Condition: 3
Ambience:4
Access:3

You can see the circle from the road and access is by a short (40 yards) walk across a field.
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Re: Esslie The Greater by coldrum on Friday, 02 April 2010
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