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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tilquhillie Standing Stone Alternative Name: Recumbent Stone CircleCountry: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Banchory
Map Ref: NO72239410
Latitude: 57.037150N Longitude: 2.45921W
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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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Aberdeenshire
This stone is situated in a gap in a consumption dyke near Tilquhillie Castle. (A consumption dyke is a extra thick, high stone wall made to use up the stones cleared off the fields; nearer Aberdeen the stones were actually carted down to the harbour and "exported" to places like London).
Depite the alternative name RCAHMS insist there is no evidence to suggest it was part of a circle.
It is given as 1.7m tall.
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