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Grime's Graves Flint Mines
Date Added: 19th Jan 2020
Site Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Country: England (Norfolk)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Sep 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Grime's Graves Flint Mines submitted by ermine on 7th Apr 2017. Descent into Greenwell Pit - ladder
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Binghill
Date Added: 19th Jan 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jan 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 4
Binghill submitted by cosmic on 28th Mar 2004. Binghill at NJ855023 in Aberdeenshire is rated as only Grade 4 by Burl but to my non-professional eyes it is far more recognisable than Raich for example.
Situated at the edge of a wood I approached it from the West over two grassy fields to find a gate into the wood.
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Bieldside
Date Added: 19th Jan 2020
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jan 2020. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 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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Friarsfield
Date Added: 19th Jan 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 19th Jan 2020. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2
Friarsfield Stone Circle submitted by cosmic on 13th Jan 2004. Friarsfield Road stone circle is still there. In the 1970s the Council
(who own the land) did some landscaping and so the stones that
can be seen at the site may be part of the original circle but they
are not in their original positions.
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Whitehill Stone Circle
Date Added: 19th Jan 2020
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jan 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Whitehill Stone Circle submitted by cosmic on 4th Apr 2004. Whitehill in Aberdeenshire at NJ 643135 is Graded as ruined but recogniseable but still appears in his Guide to Stone Circles.
Recently the surrounding wood has been harvested so it can be seenin context.
Only the West flanker (about 8 fett tall) and a stone in the NW corner are still standing but the general shape is obvious from the fallen stones and the cairn inside.
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Hut Circles at Old Kinord
Date Added: 30th Dec 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Hut Circles at Old Kinord submitted by pawel on 30th Dec 2019. Hut Circles at Old Kinord (Dec '19)
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Hilton of Cairngrassie
Date Added: 30th Dec 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Hilton of Cairngrassie submitted by cosmic on 25th Jun 2004. Hilton of Cairngrassie in Aberdeenshire at NO-90589531 stands on a low rise 150m north of Hilton of Cairngrassie Farmhouse. It is 2.1m high and is wedge shaped with the flat side facing north and south.
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Old Bourtreebush
Date Added: 30th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Old Bourtreebush submitted by SandyG on 30th Jan 2019. View from the south east.
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Auchquhorthies
Date Added: 30th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Auchquhorthies submitted by mattchapman on 12th Apr 2012. Looking SE
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Loch Kinord Cross Slab
Date Added: 19th Dec 2019
Site Type: Class III Pictish Cross Slab
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Loch Kinord Cross Slab submitted by cosmic on 16th Jan 2005. Loch Kinord Cross Slab
(rather overexposed - I'll do it with the proper camera next time!).
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Log Text: You can park at Burn o'Vat Visitor Centre, grab a map and head to Little Ord Trail. You'll find this Celtic/Pictish cross fairly easily. If you follow the path further along the bank of Loch Kinord, you will spot a small island covered in trees - Crannog Island - that once was a house built on stilts over the water. If you go even further, near New Kinord are hut circles.
Loch Kinord Crannog
Date Added: 19th Dec 2019
Site Type: Crannog
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 5 Access 3
Loch Kinord Crannog submitted by cosmic on 27th Mar 2005. Crannog on a dull winter's day.
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Log Text: Tiny island covered in trees that was was a cannog or a house built on stilts over the water. There is pictish cross nearby, and hut cirles and old kinord. To see it all, park your car at Burn o'Vat Visitors Centre, grab a map and follow Little Ord Trail. On a good weather day, it is a lovely 1.5 hour walk.
Old Kinord
Date Added: 19th Dec 2019
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 15th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Hut Circles at Old Kinord submitted by pawel on 30th Dec 2019. Hut Circles at Old Kinord (Dec '19)
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Craighead Badentoy
Date Added: 19th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Craighead Badentoy submitted by SandyG on 7th Mar 2015. View from the north west (21st February 2015).
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Aikey Brae
Date Added: 19th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Aikey Brae submitted by megalithicmatt on 20th Apr 2013. Looking NNE at the circle.
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Dyce Pictish Stones
Date Added: 12th Dec 2019
Site Type: Class I / Class II Hybrid Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 29th Nov 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dyce Pictish Stones submitted by cosmic on 20th Oct 2004. Stones to right of doorway
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Log Text: Access - you can drive right up to the cemetery. The entry gate is small so people in a wheelchair won't pass through. There are six stones, two large slabs and 4 smaller ones, all next to each other attached to a inner wall of a ruined 13th-century church dedicated to a Pictish missionary, St. Fergus. The chapel is on a premises of a old cemetery.
There is an information board from Historic Scotland giving as a brief history of the stones.
The stones have been in this shelter since 1880s.
The symbols are of Pictish origins and are dated to be some 1100 years old. The symbols include mythical beasts and crosses. There is also written inscription on the side of cross slab in a scripts called ogham.
Cullerlie
Trip No.1 Entry No.1 Date Added: 12th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cullerlie submitted by krautrock on 1st Aug 2010. Cullerlie Stone Circle in the evening sun.
June 2010
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Log Text: Visited on 07/12/2019. The site is well-maintained, grass cut short and easily accessible even on a wheel chair. Easy to find, just follow google map. There is a space to park a car right at the entrance to the site. Site is next to a farm and surrounded by a farm and pastures. It was a peaceful visit.
Sunhoney
Trip No.1 Entry No.2 Date Added: 12th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 7th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Sunhoney submitted by krautrock on 30th Jul 2010. Sunhoney Stone Circle. Amazing Recumbent Stone Circle surrounded by big trees.
June 2010
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Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 12th Dec 2019
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 8th Dec 2019. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by Umbra-man on 21st Dec 2018. Winter Solstice sunrise 2018, at 0852.
I think these lines by Margaret Atwood, describe it well....
“...This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar...”
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The Langstane
Date Added: 12th Dec 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Langstane submitted by cosmic on 29th Mar 2004. The Langstane at NJ938059 is situated only 30m from one of Aberdeen's main thoroughfares at the junction of Dee Street and Lanstane Place. It is embedded into a recess at the back of a branch of a well known fastfood restaurant.
It appears close to its present site on G&W Paterson's 1746 map of Aberdeen but it is suspected that it may have been part of a stone circle on the West side of the Denburn. Another stone, the Crab Stane, appears on the same map.
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The Island (Rugby School)
Date Added: 12th Dec 2019
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Warwickshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
The Island (Rugby School) submitted by Iain_P on 28th Jun 2017. Another general view
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