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Stonehead
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Aug 2008. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stonehead submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. Stonehead with Dunnideer to the left and Hill of Christ's Kirk to the right.
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Log Text: Big.
Hill of Barra
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2008. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hill of Barra submitted by bobs on 29th Jan 2004. Hill of Barra Iron Age Hillfort in Aberdeenshire, which also has traces of mediaeval ridge and furrow cultivation. Access is by a track off the main Inverurie/Oldmeldrum road. The track is long and uphill all the way. Wear stout trousers if climbing to the top, because there are wicked gorse bushes all round the base, whose thorns find any way they can to scratch your legs. I know this from bitter experience! Seeing the deep ramparts of the fort and the beautiful views of the surrounding cou...
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Log Text: Covers quite a big area. Earthworks are fairly visible.
Dwarfie Stane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Dwarfie Stane submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. White cotton-like plants outside the front of the tomb.
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Log Text: Wow! There's enough room inside to lie down.
Broch of Breckness
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2008. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 3
Broch of Breckness submitted by howar on 29th May 2004. slab-sided drain, L-R 7th closeup.HY225093
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Log Text: Couldn't see anything...
New Craig
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
New Craig submitted by megalithicmatt on 3rd Jan 2012. Recumbent and flankers built into the drystane dyke.
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Log Text: A Spectacular wreck. Another stone stands in the woods behind and there are cup-marked rocks in the fields nearby.
Liggar's Stane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jun 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 1 Access 5
Liggar's Stane submitted by cosmic on 23rd Oct 2004. What a sad end.
This stone is worthy of mention only because it appears on OS Maps as a Standing Stone. It has been moved and broken with this fragment used as a wall end.
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Log Text: Somewhat disappointed by the size. Uncertain if it's even the correct stone...
Druidstone (Brackla)
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 25th May 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 3
Druidstone (Brackla) submitted by megalithicmatt on 30th Oct 2011. The most prominent stone. An oval-ish rubbly kerb ravaged by rabbit holes marks the perimeter of this site.
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Log Text: Kind of hard to get a measure on this site as lots of clearance rubble is mixed in with it.
Barmekin of Echt
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd May 2008. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Barmekin of Echt submitted by megalithicmatt on 30th Oct 2011. Stunning views from inside the fort.
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Log Text: A kind of cross between the hillforts of Barra and Newleslie but with the best view.
Craw Stane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 30th Apr 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Craw Stane submitted by rldixon on 14th May 2009. Craw Stone (Stane) taken july 2006
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Log Text: Participated in the initial two week excavation (July 2005) with Gordon Noble.
Braehead Circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Couldn't find on 29th Mar 2008. My rating: Access 3
Braehead Farm submitted by cosmic on 13th Nov 2005. The entrance?
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Log Text: Stopped to soon at a clearnce cairn, didn't know about the recumbent over the hill!
The Gowk Stane
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 3
The Gowk Stane submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. Looking east from the stone.
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Log Text: View would once have been good but nearby developments have rendered it a bit dull.
Loanend
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Mar 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Loanend submitted by megalithicmatt on 30th Oct 2011. Taken from the west. The recumbent is gigantic!
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Log Text: Often referred to as the 'Hawk Hill' circle. Must be wearily approached across fields of trippable neeps and curious coos.
Johnston, The Ringing Stone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 24th Feb 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Johnston, The Ringing Stone submitted by megalithicmatt on 30th Oct 2011. The stone from the west. Walked in through Johnston farm.
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Log Text: Didn't ring, but I didn't want to hit it too hard either....
Old Rayne
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jan 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Old Rayne submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. The recumbent is the central stone in the photo. Bennachie stands in the background.
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Log Text: In a sorry state. Someone tried to smash up the recumbent too.
Broomend of Crichie Pictish Symbol Stone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Broomend of Crichie Pictish Symbol Stone submitted by rldixon on 17th Jan 2008. Broomend of Crichie pictish stone
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Log Text: Great stone, symbols are very clear and sharp.
Mummer's Reive
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jan 2008. My rating: Ambience 3 Access 3
Mummer's Reive submitted by cosmic on 4th Aug 2008. View from South
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Log Text: One of those I never quite got round to visiting. Could see it from the road.
Marischal Museum
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008
Marischal Museum submitted by cosmic on 28th Aug 2005. The impressive frontage of Marischal College - one of longest granite facades in the world.
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Log Text: I miss it!
Archaeolink
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2008
Archaeolink submitted by aluta on 3rd Aug 2007. The henge and recumbent stone circle at Archaeolink. Both are reproductions for educational purposes. A turf hut, built to reproduce one found in the archaeological record, can be seen in the distance.
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Log Text: It was always pretty naff, to be honest. And the price! Turned up for the wickerman each Samhain though.
Old Keig
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Dec 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Old Keig submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. The recumbent and flankers are massive.
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Log Text: Often shady in amongst the trees. Would be good to see it on a very bright day.
Broomend Of Crichie Stone Circle / Henge
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Henge
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Oct 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Broomend Of Crichie Stone Circle / Henge submitted by megalithicmatt on 30th Oct 2011. A section of Richard Bradley's excavation (ended Oct 2007) which shows a slightly elongated (8 x 8.5m) circle of post holes abutting the henge and built across the southern avenue line.
Bradley believed these could be evidence of a 'wood henge' since the post holes are larger than those of a conventional hut circle. If so, this would be the most northerly known one in Britain.
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Log Text: Participated in two of Richard Bradley's excavations here, thus hard not to picture it de-turfed and dug up.