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Nine Ladies
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Nine Ladies submitted by PaulM on 1st Sep 2001. Nine Ladies Stone Circle (aka Stanton Moor 2), Derbyshire GR: SK249635
Nine Ladies is a typical Derbyshire circle consisting of nine visible small standing stones embedded in a grassed over stone rubble bank approximately 11.5m by 10.5m in diameter. The site is the most popular in Derbyshire and much in the media spotlight due to quarrying plans in the area.
The stones are all composed of local millstone grit and none are taller than one metre in height. The bank has now all but disappea...
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Log Text: Vague memories of rumbling around here.
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.
Nether Corskie Stone Circle
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Nether Corskie Stone Circle submitted by megalithicmatt on 15th Jan 2012. The stones are far bigger than they appear from the road: the western stone is 2.9m high and its partner is 2.1m.
The Great Crowns Of Stone gazetteer notes that the 'recumbent' lying between / behind them (not visible in this picture) was not present in surveys in 1902 and 1904, lending uncertainty to the site's classification and original configuration.
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Log Text: Woo! Massive stones! They look deceptively small from the road.
Na Clachan Bhreige
Date Added: 27th Oct 2017
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Yes on 27th Oct 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Na Clachan Bhreige submitted by hamilton on 26th May 2012. Na Clachan Bhreige Stone Circle, showing the three remaining upright stones.
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Log Text: None
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.
Mither Tap
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 2
Mither Tap submitted by cosmic on 28th Dec 2003. Mither Tap at NJ 682 224
This the third highest hill fort surrounds the bare granite rock outcrop of the most easterly of the Bennachie summits. Although not the highest point of the Bennachie massif it is the most prominent.
The site was occupied between 1000BC and 1000AD with at least two sets of defences.
The main defence, formed by a well-built stone wall running from N to SE about 30 m below the summit of the outcrop, is clearly marked.
In places, the wall-faces and traces of a...
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Log Text: Partially rebuilt but still feels somewhat authentic and it has the best views in Aberdeenshire.
Mill o'Noth
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 1st Sep 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4
Mill o'Noth submitted by cosmic on 28th Dec 2003. Mill O'Noth Standing Stones at NJ503277
In a field near a stream junction.
Stones are about six feet high
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Log Text: The closest I've been is on the Castleton farm road but the stones are highly visible coming down the Cottown road and out along the Huntly road.
Midmar Kirk S
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Midmar Kirk S submitted by krautrock on 31st Jul 2010. Midmar Kirk S, Recumbent Stone Circle on a churchyard.
June 2010.
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Log Text: One of the best known sites in Aberdeenshire.
Midmar Kirk N
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 5th Nov 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Midmar Kirk N submitted by megalithicmatt on 3rd Jan 2012. The Balblair stone.
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Log Text: Massive, leans over ominously.
Memsie Burial Cairn
Date Added: 20th Apr 2013
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 20th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Memsie Burial Cairn submitted by bobs on 25th Jan 2004. A fine Bronze Age burial cairn. The only survivor of three which originally stood here.
Grid Ref: NJ976620
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Log Text: Gigantic.
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!
Maiden Stone (Aberdeenshire)
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Class II Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Maiden Stone (Aberdeenshire) submitted by bobs on 25th Jan 2004. Nice view of the back face of this Pictish symbol stone showing (from top) centaur .. notched rectangle .. Pictish Beast .. Mirror and Comb.
Grid Ref: NJ703247
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Log Text: Covered up by a box during winter - go during the sunnier months!
Maes Howe
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Jun 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Maes Howe submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. Under cloud cover.
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Log Text: Second visit - better tour guide this time!
Loudon Wood
Date Added: 20th Apr 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 2
Loudon Wood submitted by krautrock on 9th Aug 2010. Loudon Wood. Recumbent Stone Circle. It looks like that anybody disturbed the left corner of the recumbent stone.
June 2010
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Log Text: Nice place to visit... if you can find it. First time to this circle - forgot to take the OS map (not good).
Note for next time - ignore the directional sign by the car park.
Long Meg
Date Added: 27th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2004. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Long Meg submitted by nicoladidsbury on 13th Oct 2007. The dawn sun cast a perfect shadown on to Long Meg - I could hold one of the spirals in the palm of my hand!
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Log Text: None
Loanhead Of Daviot
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Nov 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Loanhead of Daviot submitted by rldixon on 27th Nov 2007. Loanhead of Daviot, Aberdeenshire, taken June 2007.
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Log Text: Complicated site with the cemetery neighbouring it.
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.
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...
Lang Stane o' Craigearn
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 15th Jan 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lang Stane o' Craigearn submitted by cosmic on 7th Mar 2004. Lang Stane o' Craigearn is at NJ723149. It is a very tall thin standing stone - at least 10 feet high. It is situated on top of a grassed mound behind a house.
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Log Text: Keep wanting to visit this: can see it from the road (it's huge!) but my 'driver' never wants to park nearby...
Lang Stane (Aberdeen)
Date Added: 26th Feb 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2003. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 2 Access 5
Lang Stane (Aberdeen) submitted by cosmic on 30th Aug 2004. Ancient and Modern
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Log Text: Big. Stands in the middle of an estate.