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Rispain Camp
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Rispain Camp submitted by h_fenton on 3rd Oct 2010. Rispain Camp, a Kite Aerial Photograph taken close to the end of the day, this view is from the east.
16 September 2010 @ 6.10pm
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Log Text: in very good nick, with good views NE across Wigtown bay to Cairnharrow and the hills around Cairnhulie.
turn left at the road sign and park up at the visitors car park. then it's a short walk.
Kirkcudbright Standing Stones
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kirkcudbright Standing Stones submitted by Energyman on 20th Sep 2018. The lower stone.
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Log Text: quaint modern stones set in a sloping field. Made me think, maybe the old Bronze Age stones were not that serious either!
Crawick Multiverse
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Access 3
Crawick Multiverse submitted by markj99 on 3rd Oct 2018. Crawick Multiverse from the Belvedere.
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Log Text: a great modern construction on neolithic scale. the avenue is orientated north south (whew) . Only £4 entry fee, stay all day if you want, open 10am to 6pm. Campervan parkup £15 a night.
Nith Bridge Cross
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 3rd May 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Nith Bridge Cross submitted by Anne T on 13th Oct 2014. The Nith Bridge Cross sits in a field some 200 metres west of the bridge taking the A702 over the River Nith.
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Ri Cruin
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ri Cruin submitted by caradoc68 on 23rd Feb 2012. This lovely cairn dates from the Bronze Age and is pretty new when it comes to the Kilmartin landscape. Hidden away in some trees just of the beaten track with its two kist's, this Cairn has a lot to offer with its large Kist's and its rock art of axeheads and possibly a caving of a boat in one of these kists !!.
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Nether Largie Stone Row
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2024
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Nether Largie Stone Row submitted by jeffrep on 7th Feb 2013. The Netrher Largie Stones in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, Scotland -- five central standing stones, arranged in an "X" shape. The nine foot central stone is accompanied by a number of smaller stones surrounding it. The central stone also has several cup marks.
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Nether Largie standing stone
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nether Largie standing stone submitted by caradoc68 on 18th Aug 2012. This standing stone is in the middle of a field, a short distance of the footpath. The farmer does not like you being there and might put a angry looking bull in the field to put visitors off. Cant find a lot written about this stone or why it seems to be leaning at 45 degrees and pointing to the southeast.
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Nether Largie South
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nether Largie South submitted by Fairycake on 26th Sep 2020. Looking towards the cairn from the south with the large cist in the foreground. This is by far the biggest cist I have seen. There are several inserted into earlier monuments near to here, apart from this, showing these sites continued to have significance over a long period of time.
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Nether Largie Mid
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nether Largie Mid submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. View from the North of Nether Largie Mid Cairn in Kilmartin Glen.
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Nether Largie North
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nether Largie North submitted by jeffrep on 15th Mar 2008. Nether Largie Cairn North, Kilmartin Glen.
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Log Text: the cairn has no access to the inside as of june 2024 due to the steps being blocked by a wooden board pending an 'improved' way of access than the steps.
Glebe Cairn
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Glebe Cairn submitted by PaulH on 1st Apr 2003. Kilmartin Valley
Glebe Cairn
NR 833989
Glebe cairn was constructed between 2000 and 1500 BC. It was built on the site of two earlier stone circles, and contained two burial cists
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Kilmartin House
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024
Kilmartin House submitted by DrewParsons on 29th Jun 2010. Located in the middle of the village of Kilmartin, the museum has a good display of local finds and interesting descriptions of the prehistoric sites in the neighbourhood. There is also a well stocked museum shop on the premises.
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Log Text: All very new posh presentation showing through the ages.
If you like a romantic Lord of the rings type view of the Neolithic, with ‘ceremonial’ musical accompaniment you’ll love it. You may go away with the idea that all neolithic people did was stand around chanting and burning things.
If you ever went to the old museum you will miss the coracle, lithophone and swan bone flute.
Temple Wood N
Date Added: 6th Jun 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Access 5
Temple Wood N submitted by hamish on 6th Aug 2005. Temple Wood North. I love this place,enigmatic as always.Being among the trees makes it so different.It's beautiful.
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Log Text: there is a disabled parking space at the templewood site. The main road A816 is a high accident route, so take extra care.
Temple Wood S
Date Added: 6th Jun 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Temple Wood S submitted by SandyG on 16th Jul 2015. View from north west. (15th April 2015).
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Log Text: the carved spirals are hard/impossible to see unless the sun or a light is at right angle
Auchquhorthies
Date Added: 26th Jun 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Auchquhorthies submitted by mattchapman on 12th Apr 2012. Looking SE
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Log Text: i parked up the road in an empty farm yard. it's about a km walk from there, along an old track (don't block this). no gates. the site is more overgrown than old photos, but someone cuts the grass now and then. Take care as it is lumpy stones under the long grass. The stones seem to be local rock, as i saw several red granite, quartz and mica encrusted stones in the field walls and clearance dumps. quite an exotic feel.
the stones are verging on monumental. a red granite west and quartz east. the west flanker is quartz and the recumbent's top is a fat quartz vein. other stones are notable for their 'pointy' ness.
Garrol Wood
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Garrol Wood submitted by hamish on 11th Dec 2005. These stones are the left arc of the circle.
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Esslie The Greater
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Esslie The Greater submitted by safesurfer65 on 15th Oct 2015. Esslie The Greater taken from above with a Quadcopter. Taken February 2015.
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Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Easter Aquhorthies RSC.
June 2010
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Log Text: fortuitous meeting with a geologist there-almost all the stones are of similar igneous, typical 'granite' type. Two are finer grained with striations, and the 'jasper' stone is a very different type, probably slower cooling. Views of the peak of Bennache to WNW.
Balquhain
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Balquhain submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Balquhain Stone Circle. It's not easy to spot the circles in the field in summertime.
June 2010
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Log Text: the 3.2m quartz outer is an imposing stone. lichen does not seem to grow on quartz, so it is bare rock. The landowner is very proud of it and said that in the full moonlight the stone gleams. it would have been a beacon from afar.
Loanhead Of Daviot
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Loanhead Of Daviot submitted by Suncircle49 on 23rd Aug 2022. 19/06/2019 08.41: A beautiful sunny morning, perfect for flying a drone. The aerial photos showed clearly the shadow in the slit of the recumbent, ending midway along its length. However, what was interesting was the shadows of the standing stones which touched the inner ring of the RSC. The next morning at Easter Aquhorthies I saw similar shadows.
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