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Tulach An T-sionnaich
Date Added: 22nd Aug 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Log Text: Barely discernible but in a nice location.
Tulloch of Assery (A and B)
Date Added: 22nd Aug 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 13th Aug 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tulloch of Assery (A and B) submitted by cosmic on 10th Oct 2007. End of Loch including both cairns
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Log Text: Two nice cairns, both with something of interest to the visitor and in a nice spot... although the loch would not have been there when they were built of course!
Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by rldixon on 27th Nov 2007. Easter Aquhorthies recumbent stone circle aberdeenshire taken 2007
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Log Text: Good circle just a short walk from the car park of a dead-end lane
Backhill Of Drachlaw
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Backhill Of Drachlaw submitted by cosmic on 22nd Mar 2004. Backhill of Drachlaw at NJ673463 in Aberdeenshire is rated as an Grade One Circle by Burl but personally on this trip I consider Yonder Bognie as more impressive. The stones are unusual in being basaltic with veins of pebbles in them - see close-up.
The farmer admitted to having dumped a rogue stone in the circle - I'll have to go back for another look!
Just under 300m away to the NNE is the huge Carlin Stone reckoned by Fred Cole to be the recumbent of another circle - personally I think...
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Log Text: Sadly overgrown and fenced off requiring some effort to locate and visit despite being near a road.
Cairn Riv
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cairn Riv submitted by cosmic on 22nd Mar 2004. The Carlin Stone at NJ674465 in Aberdeenshire is just under 300m NNE of the Stone Circle at Backhill of Drachlaw. Fred Coles considered it to be the recumbent of another stone circle but at over 8 feet tall this seems unlikely to me.
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Log Text: Large stone, easy to walk to, just of a country road.
Loanhead Of Daviot
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 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: Really lovely site. Well preserved and with easy access.
Stanton Drew NE Circle
Date Added: 31st Dec 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Dec 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew NE Circle submitted by vicky on 25th Apr 2002. A general view of the North East Circle at Stanton Drew.
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Log Text: None
Stanton Drew Great Circle
Date Added: 31st Dec 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Dec 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Stanton Drew Great Circle submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Apr 2009. Stanton Drew Great Circle 01/04/09
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Log Text: On 22 December 2011 I made my usual visit to Stanton Drew for the winter solstice at sunset. There was me, my friend and a group of three guys... that was it.
It always amazes me how few people visit our great henges and circles for the winter solstice, despite all the evidence pointing to this being the most important connection. How come thousands go to Stonehenge in the summer when it’s so obvious that they should be there in the winter?
Stanton Drew has a lovely alignment through the great circle and the south west circle to the setting sun at the winter solstice, which was at 16.04 this year. Despite the cloud and rain it is still a wonderful place to be and experience the link with nature that the ancients felt.
The group of three had left by then… they’d obviously looked up sunset for the London meridian and not the one at Stanton Drew!
See you next year.
Wook's Quoit
Date Added: 29th Jul 2012
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2008. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Wook's Quoit submitted by soulsurfer on 4th Nov 2009. Wooks Quoit. Yarberry farm. October 2008
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Log Text: Ask at the farm for permission. They are very friendly.
Arbor Low 1
Date Added: 29th Jul 2012
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Derbyshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2009. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Arbor Low 1 submitted by soulsurfer on 24th Jun 2011. Arbor Low is a wonderful site.
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Log Text: None
Long Meg And Her Daughters
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Long Meg And Her Daughters submitted by nicoladidsbury on 13th Jul 2005. Long Meg in midsummer moonlight. The solstice night is very short, but when you're waiting for the sun to rise, it gives plenty of opportuntiy to experiment with photos! I took this photo around 2am, in the middle of the solstice night. The moon was shining very brightly casting beautiful moonlight shadows, it felt very magical. I turned up my ISO rating to catch as much light as I could, and set the timer for 30 seconds. This is the result. I know its a grainy picture, and rather odd, but the b...
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Log Text: Lovely site. You can drive almost up to the stones.
Castlerigg
Date Added: 4th Nov 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 21st Sep 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Castlerigg submitted by rldixon on 7th Jan 2009. castlerigg taken about 11am dec 2008
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Log Text: One of the best for location.
Trippet Stones
Date Added: 27th Oct 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Trippet Stones submitted by thecaptain on 25th Oct 2008. Despite the fact that I have visited the Trippet Stones many times over the years, this is the first time I have been able to take some decent pictures of the stones in the lovely golden setting sunshine.
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Log Text: A lovely site. Very easy to get to and in beautiful countryside.
Stannon circle
Date Added: 27th Oct 2011
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cornwall)
Visited: Yes on 13th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stannon circle submitted by TheCaptain on 28th Mar 2005. Stannon stone circle, northwestern Bodmin Moor.
The whole circle looking towards the south east.
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Log Text: None