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<< Our Photo Pages >> Machrie Moor 5 - Stone Circle in Scotland in Isle of Arran

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Machrie Moor 5 Alternative Name: Suidhe Coire Fhionn; Machrie Moor 5; Fingal's Cauldron Seat; Tormore Stones
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Arran Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Brodick  Nearest Village: Blackwaterfoot
Map Ref: NR90883235  Landranger Map Number: 68
Latitude: 55.539915N  Longitude: 5.315877W
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.
5 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
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drolaf visited on 10th May 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 impressive double ring of granite stones. Like the other Machrie sites 'excavated' by Bryce the 'Destroyer', the centre is lumpy and may not represent original structure.

Catrinm visited on 2nd Sep 2019 Great megalithic landscape

Ogham visited on 20th Jul 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

AstroGeologist visited on 9th Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 MM5 : This is the FIFTH site you encounter when heading East from the Beach at Machrie. From the car park 'Machrie Moor 5' (Coire Fhionn-Fingals Cauldron) is 1.75km away A double concentric Stone Circle made from large, radioactive Granite boulders. The inner circle is roughly 11.5m in diameter and has Eight stones, 60~100cm high. The outer circle is 18m in diameter consists of Fifteen slightly smaller stones, one of which has a hole in it. J.M.Arthur excavated this circle in 1858 and removed a lot of small packing stones and boulders, but he didn't reach the original ground level. A few years later in 1861, J.Bryce found a small Sandstone Cist in the centre of the circles, less than 30cm from the surface. The Cist contained several bone fragments and black earth, and he suggests that the area had been disturbed several times before his excavation. J.A.Balfour records the remains of this Cist in 1910, but it no longer exists today (perhaps it has been filled in) During the 1980s Paul Devereux and other members of the Gaia Programme conducted a series of tests, over a 5 year period, to monitor electromagnetic anomalies at many Megalithic Stone Circles across Europe. MM5 gave a site average, of 33% above background radiation levels. The tallest, and the most Westerly of the upright stones in the inner ring, is particularly energetic, giving readings 16% above the next most radioactive stone in the double ring. *Getting There ; Get the '322 bus' to Blackwaterfoot from the Ferry terminal at Brodick. It takes approx 45 minutes. From Blackwaterfoot you can go directly to the Moor by following the A841 road which is a 5.5km walk (It took me about an hour on the way back) Or you can take the scenic route which is 8.5km. The long way follow's the beach to Drumadoon Point, and then onto the Doon Hillfort, after exploring the Fort you walk along the beach path to Kings Caves (These part's of the journey are covered in log visits for these sites) From the Caves you can go along the shore to Machrie Bay (which would have been shorter) but instead l followed the trail path up Torr Righ Mor (137m) and around the Pine forests on Torr Righ Beag (109m) until l reached to visitors car park. From here it's a 15 minute walk to the visitors car park at Machrie Moor. This is the 5th site you encounter when coming from the car park.

SandyG visited on 22nd Aug 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3

Andy B visited on 25th Aug 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2

sirius_b visited on 7th Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2

jeffrep visited on 2nd Jun 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2

Richard13 visited on 1st Oct 2005 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3

BolshieBoris visited on 1st Aug 1996 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 2

bishop_pam visited - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 5 Access: 3

Bladup AngieLake maddy kelpie have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.9 Ambience: 4.5 Access: 2.8

Machrie Moor 5
Machrie Moor 5 submitted by jeffrep : Machrie Moor 5, sometimes called "Fingal's Cauldron Seat," consists of two almost perfectly preserved rings of granite boulders. The Machrie Moor Stone Circles are located at the end of a 1-1/2 mile track that is off of the A841 (some 200 yards south of the bridge where the main road crosses the Machrie Water) and three miles north of Blackwaterfoot in the western part of the Isle of Arran in... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Stone Circle in Arran (Argyll). A superb ring of two concentric circles. See our nearby sites list for many more Machrie Moor sites.

This stone circle is also featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their entry for Fingal’s Cauldron Seat, Machrie Moor, Kilmory, Arran which has directions for finding the circle, an image of the 1864 OS map showing its location, photographs, a plan, a drawing, a detailed archaeology & history and local folklore.

Canmore ID 39705 also has a publication account, commencing: "The area immediately around the abandoned steading at Moss Farm contains Scotland's most remarkable concentration of neolithic and bronze-age monuments. Included within this group are chambered cairns, round cairns, stone circles, standing stones, and hut-circles and field-systems."

Note: Grahame Gardner (Enki) has created a set of panoramic stone circle landscapes for use with the free open-source astronomy program Stellarium. They feature Machrie Moor 5, Callanish, Sighthill and others, More details at the link lower down our page.
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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Catrinm : MM5 (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by SandyG : View from the west. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by SandyG : View from above and west highlighting the position of the other stone circles on the moor. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by AstroGeologist : Facing E 09.08.18 : Detail of hole in Granite on outer Stone in Fingals Cauldron. Legend has it that the Leader of the Fianna 'Fionn mac Cumhail' tied his two dogs 'Bran and Sceolang' to the rock while he ate. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by AstroGeologist : Facing NE 09.08.18 : Fingals Cauldron with Goatfell (874m) visible in the distance (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by durhamnature : Old drawing from "Antiquities of Arran" via archive.org

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Antonine : 2008

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Antonine : Moss Farm on left, Machrie circles 3 and 2 in background, 2008

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Antonine : 2008

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Greengirl : Overview of site - interpretation Board at entrance to Machrie Moor 5

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Greengirl : Machrie Moor 5

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by AstroGeologist : Facing NW 09.08.18 : Coire Fhionn with the low lying hills of the Kintyre Peninsula visible on the horizon and Beinn Bharrain (715m) to the right of the picture

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by SandyG : View from above and west.

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by SandyG : View from above and north east.

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Bladup : Machrie Moor 5.

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Bladup : Machrie Moor 5 [Fingal's Cauldron Seat].

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Bladup

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Bladup : Fingal's caudron seat.

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by thrip : Machrie Moor 5. May 2006. A stone at the south-east has a hole in it, which Fingal used to tether his dog Bran. As you can see it is also quite suitable for a modern terrier. (2 comments)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by thrip : Machrie Moor 5. May 2006

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by AngieLake : A wider view of Machrie Moor 5, taken in June 2002. (1 comment)

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by AngieLake : Machrie Moor 5, beside the track to the main circles of Machrie Moor. In the left background can be seen the single remaining pillar of Machrie Moor 3. June 2002, in the mist!

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by Maddy : May 2006

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Machrie Moor 5 submitted by kelpie : A superb ring of two concentric circles. NR 90896 32351

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 120m E 82° Machrie Moor 4* Stone Circle (NR91003236)
 131m W 276° Moss farm chambered cairn* Chambered Cairn (NR90753237)
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 3.7km SW 214° Drumadoon Hillfort* Hillfort
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Re: Machrie Moor 5 by Enki on Thursday, 14 January 2016
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I have created a landscape of the Machrie Moor 5 circle for use with the open-source astronomy program Stellarium.

You can download it, and landscapes for other sites of interest to megalithomaniacs, at The Geomancy Group.

Hope you find it useful. Enjoy!

It's a bit of an involved process and there are several ways to create a landscape, of which the easiest is to make a panorama with the left-hand edge marking due east. This is how I do it most of the time. You can also work it by creating a GPS baseline and calculating azimuth offset from north, which is more accurate.

Click here to read my blog post about creating some recent landscapes; it includes a link to the Stellarium Wiki where you can find more detailed instructions. Getting it into Stellarium is usually just a matter of unzipping the file to your Stellarium Landscapes directory - the location of that may vary depending on your OS; the readme.txt file in the zip file has more details.
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