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Easter Aquhorthies
Date Added: 31st Oct 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 3
Easter Aquhorthies submitted by krautrock on 28th Jul 2010. Easter Aquhorthies RSC.
June 2010
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Log Text: Lovely to visit at midnight in the moonlight. Took the wrong turning off the roundabout and ended up there! Access is ok, first there's parking at the end of the bumpy lane and a box asking for donations to make the road better then there's a walk up a track.
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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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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Old Rayne
Date Added: 26th Nov 2024
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Aberdeenshire)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jan 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Old Rayne submitted by cosmic on 3rd Jul 2004. Old_Rayne at NJ679280 in Aberdeenshire only has one standing stone but still merits an entry in Burl's Guide to Stone Circles.
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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
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!
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
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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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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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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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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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]/