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Castlerigg
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Castlerigg submitted by rldixon on 7th Jan 2009. castlerigg taken about 11am dec 2008
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Log Text: Great site!
Castle Fraser Row
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Castle Fraser Row submitted by cosmic on 24th Sep 2005. Pair from WSW.
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Log Text: Tall. In the middle of a cultivated field though.
Castle Fraser circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Castle Fraser circle submitted by megalithicmatt on 15th Jan 2012. View of the recumbent setting from the WSW.
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Log Text: That's Fraser with an 's', not a 'z' and often called Balgorkar anyway. One of the stones was toppled by plough a couple of years ago but has since been re-erected. The same field has two other standing stones.
Castle Farm standing stone
Date Added: 9th Apr 2023
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Yes on 9th Apr 2023. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Castle Farm standing stone submitted by caradoc68 on 5th Dec 2011. NM 911 402, Castle Farm, Barcaldine. ID NM94sw3...
This standing stone formerly stood about 3.1 metres from the most westerly of the three cairns described under NM94SW 10. When it fell, it was re-erected on its present site (Smith 1879). As it now stands, it measures 0.45 by 0.15 metres at its base and stands 2.1 metres in height.
RCAHMS 1975.
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Log Text: None
Candle Hill
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 9th Feb 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Candle Hill submitted by megalithicmatt on 3rd Jan 2012. Fallen recumbent and flanker.
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Log Text: Access from the north is a bit hazardous as a little quarry has to be avoided. The circle is pretty much destroyed but the overgrown cairn is visible in the centre. Great views all around.
Cairn o'Mount
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cairn o'Mount submitted by SandyG on 27th Dec 2014. A small upright stone a short distance south east of the cairn might indicate the survival of other remains in the vicinity. View from south (8th August 2014).
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Log Text: Vistatastic.
Buttony 4
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Rock Art
Country: England (Northumberland)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 3
Buttony 4 submitted by wolfnighthunter on 4th Dec 2008. Button cup and ring carvings
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Log Text: Remember these being very clear on the rock.
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.
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.
Broomend of Crichie Avenue
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Broomend of Crichie Avenue submitted by golux on 13th Jan 2012. Once there were two stone circles here, joined to one another by an avenue of paired monoliths. Of this double row or "avenue" of maybe 80 stones, only 4 survive.
According to Maitland and other authorities a double line of stones about 18m apart extended from a point 450 yards south of the circle, where a number of cist burials were discovered, up to the circle and then on to a second circle (Broomend of Crichie North circle), an overall length of about 500 yards.
The site of the seco...
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Log Text: Entertaining visit with Richard Bradley.
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...
Breemie Stones
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Access 3
Breemie Stones submitted by sacredway on 23rd Apr 2007. Looking over the granite recumbent and flankers towards the Barmekin Hill at Echt (hill fort remains on top of the Barmekin hill). Note the shape of the recumbent mimicks the shape of the Barmekin Hill and the distant Hill of Fare. It was aligned to this hill on its SW axis. The left flanker is about 6.5 feet tall.
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Log Text: Modern but still quite interesting.
Brandsbutt
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 5
Brandsbutt submitted by on 19th Jun 2002.
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Log Text: The site is a bit of a mess and the grim housing estate all around doesn't help. Having said that, the inscriptions are worth looking at.
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!
Brae of Achnahaird
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Couldn't find on 1st Jan 2005. My rating: Ambience 4 Access 3
Log Text: Couldn't see it but I don't think I was trying all that hard.
Binghill
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 11th Nov 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Binghill submitted by megalithicmatt on 2nd Nov 2011. Looking SSE at the recumbent stone.
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Log Text: Used to live a few minutes from this site. Recumbent is short and squat; other stones are stumpy and some are hidden in bushes. Lots of deer live in the woods.
Bieldside
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2011. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 2 Access 5
Bieldside submitted by bobs on 29th Jan 2004. This burial cairn is situated slap bang in the middle of a modern housing estate and therefore has absolutely no atmosphere whatsoever. That said, it is still a good example of this type of cairn.
Grid Ref: NJ883027
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Log Text: Very large cairn. The view of the hills past the estate isn't too bad.
Baron's Cairn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Apr 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Baron's Cairn submitted by hamilton on 5th Feb 2012. Baron's Cairn on Tullos Hill, near the coast, just south of the River dee estuary.
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Log Text: Actually quite nice.
Barnhouse Stone
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3
Barnhouse Stone submitted by howar on 30th Jul 2010. stone with Maes Howe aligned, Setter tumuli on Syra Dale behind Maes Howe continuing line
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Log Text: Looks good from far off, wish I had time to get in close.
Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Log Text: Rebuilt and made all spick-and-span...