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Clettraval South
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 29th May 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Clettraval South submitted by SandyG on 6th Feb 2019. View of the chamber from the north east.
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Log Text: Some massive capstones and kerbs. Fallen stones here. Faces SE. A composite of main cairn, smaller cairns and a wheelhouse? The remaining upright blocking stone of the main cairn has much quartz. At the NE end of the wheelhouse is a pink quartz stone, also a small pink quartz stone at the same position in the small N cairn
Clach Mhic Leoid
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Harris)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Clach Mhic Leoid submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Clach Mhic Leoid (McLeods Stone) Standing Stone NG040972. Pointing out towards St Kilda with Taransay in the background.
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Log Text: On a hill overlooking a pristine sandy beach. Stone. Aligns east west
Callanish 8
Date Added: 30th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Callanish 8 submitted by Tom_Bullock on 8th Dec 2004. Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM
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Callanish 4
Date Added: 30th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4
Callanish 4 submitted by LivingRocks on 30th Jul 2005. Solstice eve, June 2005.
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Log Text: Like Callanish 1 2 and 3 it sits well below the top of the hill.
Caravat Barp
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Passage Grave
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Caravat Barp submitted by Postman on 23rd Aug 2016. Loch a' Bharpa beyond.
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Achmore
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Achmore submitted by pab on 21st Sep 2011. Achmore Stone Circle.
Looking towards the east, across the top of the plan.
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Callanish I
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Callanish I submitted by scubadoc on 21st Feb 2020. Lewis 2016 82 366 Callanish (Calanais) b Callanish dawn. Lewis 2016 Image copyright: tdpriest (Tim Priest), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Callanish 2
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Callanish 2 submitted by Humbucker on 28th Sep 2018. Cnoc Ceann a'Gharraidh (Callanish II) at sundown - September 2018
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Log Text: Good idea to at least visit Callanish 2 and 3 and walk the wider landscape.
Callanish 3
Date Added: 29th May 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 27th May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Callanish 3 submitted by Andy B on 13th Nov 2022. Bruce Adams, one of our members since 2012, sadly died last month - he had motor neurone disease. Bruce wrote: "Over the years I have assembled albums recording my visits to stone circles and related sites. I would very much like to pass these on to someone who will appreciate them. I am not asking for payment and only have a desire to see them go to a good home. I would rather not see them broken up and dispersed."
I am currently looking after Bruce's albums and will be sharing some of the...
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Log Text: Callanish 1 2 and 3 are all located on NS hills, and placed well below the summits. From Callanish 2, call 1 and 3 are on the skyline.
Clach An Truishal
Date Added: 23rd May 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 22nd May 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Clach An Truishal submitted by BERNARDEDWARDS on 12th Sep 2019. September morning before Bahama Storm Dorian remnant rolls in...
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Log Text: parking area nearby with a short 50m walk
Balnuaran of Clava SW
Date Added: 23rd May 2024
Site Type: Clava Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Balnuaran of Clava SW submitted by Scotaviaimages on 14th Jan 2011. The Easterly cairn from the Cessna camera plane
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Log Text: gets busy so best to visit early morning/late evening. it was lovely at 6am. by 8 car park was full and there were unofficial 'guides' pontificating to gullible tourists.
Balnuaran of Clava Centre
Date Added: 23rd May 2024
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Access 5
Balnuaran of Clava Centre submitted by Klingon on 27th Feb 2006.
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Bosta Beach
Date Added: 30th May 2024
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Isle of Lewis)
Visited: Yes on 21st May 2024. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 5 Access 4
Bosta Beach submitted by SandyG on 14th Jan 2015. The reconstructed Iron Age house. Sadly closed at time of visit. View from south (31st August 2014).
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Log Text: The original settlement has eroded away but the reconstruction is very good. An archaeological guide gives good talk and can answer queries.£5 fee but flexible
Cana Henge
Date Added: 12th May 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2024. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Cana Henge submitted by Bladup on 26th Jan 2025. Cana Barn Henge, The late afternoon sunlight reveals the henge, To be found near the city of Ripon, North Yorkshire (Photo courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Log Text: nout to see of henge but a decent view over to dales and n y moors. doubts over views in neolithic due to tree cover
Nunwick Henge
Date Added: 12th May 2024
Site Type: Henge
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 11th May 2024. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Nunwick Henge submitted by Bladup on 26th Jan 2025. Nunwick Henge (Photo courtesy of Yorkshire Archaeological Aerial Mapping)
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Log Text: nout to see of henge parking on a busy road means not worth bothering
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.
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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Tyrebagger
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Access 3
Tyrebagger submitted by Suncircle49 on 15th Aug 2022. Collection of photos of the recumbent 16-21/6/19: Canmore describes Tyrebagger with ‘a fallen recumbent’, but my first impressions, it’s a ‘Dolmen’. The recumbent and its flanker’s are very different to any existing RSC in Aberdeenshire. Its alternative name DYCE which is very similar to DYSSE meaning ‘Dolmen’. A recumbent on stone mounts…. a Dolmen?
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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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