Cromrar 2

Date Added: 23rd Mar 2018
Site Type: Rock Art Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: There are three boulders on this small knoll – the big cupmarked one pictured, measuring 1.8m x 1.6m x 0.9m high (Burl/Canmore), a broken one to the west and a slab at the south-west. Some of the cupmarks are quite large.

From this picture Cramrar 3 will be down on the roadside not far from the house on the left, perhaps hidden by the big stone.

Cromrar 1

Date Added: 23rd Mar 2018
Site Type: Rock Art Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Mar 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4

Log Text: Although Aubrey Burl lists this minor site (as Cramrar) as a Four-Poster in his original "Stone Circles...." (1976) and in his "Four-Posters" (1988) and in the updated "Stone Circles...." (2000) Canmore only refer to a letter he sent them in 1970 that said:
“The four prostrate boulders are situated on the outer lip of a natural shelf on a WNW-facing hill slope. The present position of the boulders, roughly in a line, does not suggest that they once formed a ‘four-poster’.”
Clearly he revised his opinion. If upright, as he suggests in "Four-Posters", these four stones would have been quite impressive. Prostrate they are just another sad site.

Woodside, Hill of Drimmie

Date Added: 25th Jan 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 25th Jan 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3

Log Text: This is a difficult site to understand and any interpretation is hindered by the way the trees have been planted in and over the site – but this is fairly typical of how such places have been treated by the Forestry Commission.
In an area of Four Poster stone circles Woodside appears to have six stones, all fallen. Aubrey Burl (in his Four-Posters) notes that four of the stones are set approximately to the four main points of the compass, and such an interest is not unusual in 4-Posters. Alexander Thom apparently mislaid his field notes and his plan reversed north and south. The Canmore plan is clearer.
John Barnatt (in his Stone Circles of Britain) accepts it as a 4-Poster and suggests that there may been a pair of equal height.
My pictures, taken in September 2002, do not show much, but here they are:

Horse Stone, Hill of Drimmie

Date Added: 25th Jan 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Would like to visit

The Glasfryn Stone

Date Added: 22nd Aug 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Jan 2016

Log Text: None

Fach Goch

Date Added: 22nd Aug 2016
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jan 2016

Log Text: None

Capel Tan-Y-Foel

Date Added: 9th Dec 2015
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir) Country: Wales (Gwynedd)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4

Log Text: This 7ft high column of basalt stands on the parish boundary between Rhiw and Llanfaelrhys and is considered to be one of a pair of stones, the second of which can be seen lying in the bank below to the North. Sometimes called Lladron Maelrhys – Maelrhys’s Thieves – tradition says that the rogues stole money from the church and were turned to stone when they crossed the parish boundary. (Margaret Griffiths in Transactions of Caernarvon Hist. Soc. 1983). Locals will still tell you that the stones should be spoken to as you pass them.