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Backhill Of Drachlaw
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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Bellman's Wood
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
Bellman's Wood submitted by cosmic on 4th Jul 2008. Bellman's from South
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Cowiemuir
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cowiemuir 022 submitted by Andy B on 18th Jan 2004. You can just make out a large stone in the gorse to the middle left of this picture
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Arradoul Stone Circle
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Moray)
Visited: Would like to visit
Sandend Bay A
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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Kimmonity
Date Added: 30th Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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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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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]/
New Craig
Date Added: 2nd Apr 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes
New Craig submitted by cosmic on 18th Mar 2005. Viewed from Outside
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Loanhead Of Daviot
Date Added: 30th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Loanhead Of Daviot submitted by Suncircle49 on 23rd Aug 2022. 19/06/2019 08.41: A beautiful sunny morning, perfect for flying a drone. The aerial photos showed clearly the shadow in the slit of the recumbent, ending midway along its length. However, what was interesting was the shadows of the standing stones which touched the inner ring of the RSC. The next morning at Easter Aquhorthies I saw similar shadows.
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Brandsbutt stone circle
Date Added: 30th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 1 Access 5
Brandsbutt stone circle submitted by TheCaptain on 12th Oct 2018. A circle is marked out on the green where the original circle was thought to be, and there are a couple of the remaining stones positioned within the border at the edge of the green.
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Broomend of Crichie
Date Added: 30th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 2 Access 4
Broomend of Crichie Avenue submitted by golux on 8th Jan 2012. Aerial view of the avenue
This map shows the orderly placing of the stones: A, B and D sit neatly on a line running due S from the henge marking the E side of the avenue, stone C is the only surviving member of the W side. A cremation burial was found at the foot of stones B and C and some "funerary urns" have also been found along the avenue. There was another stone in the E line, just to the N of stone A at NJ 7792 1960, which was removed in 1851.
The OS map also shows 2 stones ...
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Cairn Riv
Date Added: 30th Mar 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2025. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
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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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
Frendraught
Date Added: 31st Jan 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 1 Ambience 1 Access 3
Frendraught submitted by hamilton on 14th Aug 2011. The remains of Frendraught stone circle, presumably the fallen flankers and recumbent.
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Mither Tap
Date Added: 26th Jan 2025
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 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: incredible place! various ways to get up to the hillfort
Hellstone
Date Added: 1st Jan 2025
Site Type: Long Barrow
Country: England (Dorset)
Visited: Yes
Hellstone submitted by Greifensteiner on 22nd Dec 2024. Hellstone at sundowner time.
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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!