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Lower Lagmore
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Lower Lagmore submitted by vicky on 11th Oct 2002. Another view of the Lagmore Farm Stones.
Photo kindly supplied by Grace Green
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Log Text: ballindalloch distillery car park is accessible, then it's a hop over the gate
Inveravon
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Inveravon submitted by golux on 14th Aug 2010. The four pictish symbol stones are displayed on the south wall of St Peter's church at Inveravon. From left to right they are:
no.2 - crescent-with-V-rod above a triple disc ("cauldron") above a mirror -and-comb
no.3 - the "pictish beast" (fragment of the head only)
no.1 - disc-with-rectangle (perhaps a mirror without a comb) above a large eagle next to a mirror-and-comb
no.4 - crescent-with-V-rod above the "pictish beast"
ed: The four pictish stones are now (2012) on display i...
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Log Text: the stones are now in a church porch beside the road - they didn't seem particularly well protected from the elements since the two largest were sweating water. cool to see them though, my first time seeing a pictish eagle symbol and it looked magnificent
Inveravon (3)
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Inveravon (3) submitted by golux on 15th Aug 2010. Stone no.3 - a fragment showing the head of the "pictish beast" symbol.
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Log Text: this one is pretty ruined, the infoboard is helpful in explaining it
Inveravon (4)
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 2 Access 5
Inveravon (4) submitted by golux on 15th Aug 2010. Stone no.4. Crescent-with-V-rod above a "beast", now very faint.
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Log Text: couldn't really make out the symbols on this one, the infoboard helped
Inveravon (1)
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Class I Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Inveravon (1) submitted by wallace on 17th Apr 2012. The four stones have been moved from their old location outside the church to a new location inside an old entrance to the church. The stones have strategically placed lights to show off the designs to their best.
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Log Text: very beautiful stone, the eagle looks fantastic, even if it could also be a pheasant (!)
Marionburgh
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024
Marionburgh 60 submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. Part of the Burnham family holiday to Tomintoul, Moray in August 2003
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Log Text: in winter 2024 there was a big sign at the start of the drive saying NO ACCESS, i considered parking in a nearby layby and walking in, but it was pissing it down so i carried on to the nearby lagmore circles. there the rain stopped and upper lagmore had an amazing ambience, so i think i made the right decision - would like to return and explore more of what is a special landscape where the river avon meets the spey. i imagine the construction of ballindalloch castle destroyed some stuff but five circles remain in some form at least
Alves Stone Circle
Date Added: 7th Feb 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Would like to visit
Alves Stone Circle submitted by lenny on 28th Jul 2004. Look carefuly and the circle becomes clear. Is it real?? Im not so sure. Do you know of any fake Circles?
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Upper Lagmore
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Upper Lagmore submitted by Spindrift on 28th Mar 2004. Upper Lagmore - Moray
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Log Text: Had to hop barbed wire fence and a gate to get there, totally worth it wow what an amazing site. I really connected with something here, the rain stopped and a full rainbow appeared as i snapped pix and wondered what the ancients were up to here. it's a lovely site in the landscape, near to both the avon and spey rivers although i don't think i could see them.
i went in blind since i like to experience sites without fixed ideas as much as possible, but then i had to look this one up because it's such a confusing assortment of stones. i concur with the general theory that it's a chambered cairn surrounded by a stone circle, which puts it in clava cairn territory. i definitely don't think the lintel is positioned corrected but you can see some exposed chambers.
Burl's 'Recumbent Stone Circles of North-East Scotland' says:
"Even further to the east than the Nairn sites are Upper Lagmore (ibid, 389-90; Coles 1907,141-9) and Marionburgh (Henshall 1963, 391) in the Spey valley. The first is in a level positionbut in a sharply sloping field at 600 ft OD; and the second is on a terrace above the river. Thepositions of these sites are sufficiently similar to RSCs for one to hypothesise that the RSCs ofAberdeen may be traced from the Clava cairns"
It's well worth a visit and I'm looking forward to seeing my fotos!
Urquart Stones
Date Added: 7th May 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025
Urquart Stones submitted by lenny on 30th Jul 2004. Near By Witches Hill, Possibly once home to a SC, now a huge monolith if a farmers field
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Log Text: I don't think is an artificial mound. Maybe that's the one in Fife, but in Moray this is most likely to be glacial deposit not man-made. "The terrain here is often gently undulating, with low mounds and ridges composed of sand and gravel deposited as the last ice sheet melted." [https://www.nature.scot/doc/landscape-character-assessment-moray-and-nairn-landscape-evolution-and-influences]/
Balnuaran Of Clava NE
Date Added: 31st Oct 2024
Site Type: Clava Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Balnuaran Of Clava NE submitted by Bladup on 18th Jun 2015. Clava Cairns (The North East Cairn and Circle). This Original Artwork in a glass frame is £39.99 + Postage (Just whatever it costs), and is 18 cm x 12 and a half cm. A Limited (to a 100) edition print in a 8" x 10" glass frame would be £19.99 + £2.90 postage, E-mail me at [email protected] if interested.
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Log Text: None
Balnuaran of Clava Centre
Date Added: 31st Oct 2024
Site Type: Ring Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Balnuaran of Clava Centre submitted by Klingon on 27th Feb 2006.
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Log Text: Ate my lunch inside it, very nice
Balnuaran of Clava SW
Date Added: 31st Oct 2024
Site Type: Clava Cairn
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Balnuaran of Clava SW submitted by Scotaviaimages on 14th Jan 2011. The Easterly cairn from the Cessna camera plane
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Druidtemple
Date Added: 31st Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Would like to visit
Druidtemple submitted by AdamCircle on 5th May 2024. A lovely sketch by the late Bruce Adams to introduce this photo and art album he made. Stone Circles and Clava cairns around Inverness, all scanned ready to browse, either on Flickr or PDF here
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Hill o'Many Stanes
Date Added: 31st Oct 2024
Site Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Country: Scotland (Caithness)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2021. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Hill o'Many Stanes submitted by DrewParsons on 14th Oct 2010. Hill o'Many Stanes on a sunny day in September 2010. It had been described to me as a mini Carnac so I was somewhat underwhelmed by it. With less expectations it would make a nice detour to see.
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Balquhain
Date Added: 15th Feb 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Balquhain submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Balquhain Stone Circle. It's not easy to spot the circles in the field in summertime.
June 2010
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Yonder Bognie
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Yonder Bognie Warden submitted by cosmic on 22nd Mar 2004. Yonder_Bognie at NJ601458 in Aberdeenshire is rated by Burl as a Class 3 Circle but I felt it deserves more due to its impressive recumbent.
The recumbent at about nine feet long by five feet high is almost flat on top and is one of the most impressive I've seen. The circle especially to the west side seems to have some rogue stones dumped into it - there is a profusion of stones around the perimeter of the neighbouring fields!
The owner lives at Kirkland Farm and seemed happy for me to vi...
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Thorax
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Thorax submitted by cosmic on 5th Jul 2008. Thorax from West
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Gaul Cross
Date Added: 13th Feb 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 4
Gaul Cross S submitted by golux on 23rd Dec 2014. A hoard of Pictish silver was found at this site in 1830 and a second hoard of Pictish silver and Roman coins was discovered here in 2013.
A BBC news report of 22nd December 2014 revealed that a silver hoard was discovered in March 2013 by detectorist Alistair "The Magnet" MacPherson, at Gaulcross in Aberdeenshire. It was found in the field lying immediately north of Ley farmhouse, about 200 meters west of the village of Fordyce, this being the home of two ring-cairn stone circles (South G...
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Log Text: There would have been a fantastic view down to the sea from these stone circles
Kimmonity
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Westertown
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Westertown submitted by thewonderer on 1st Feb 2004. Grid Ref:NJ586447
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