Month: March 2025
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St Marnan’s Chair
To my surprise, the church is now a home! Didn’t meet anyone on my visit but also didn’t enter the former churchyard. I found the smaller of the two stones then walked around like an idiot looking for the big one for a while until I went back to my car and it was right next to it 🙂…
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Cothiemuir Wood RSC
After sitting in the sunshine for a while absorbing the intense lessons of Old Keig RSC, I decided to give myself another chance to find Cothiemuir Wood stone circle. I had stupidly managed to come out without both a charged phone and a OS map, so I was in the dark. I’d previously got as far as the sign off the…
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Stonehead RSC
What a cracker of a monument!! I’ve tried to find this a few times and finally succeeded on the spring equinox. As others have noted, the setting is sublime and despite only the recumbent and flankers remaining, it’s a stunning site, with the view down to Dunnideer castle and the way the hill drops away.
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Inside Caravan City
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Little Bin Cairns
A spot of sunshine motivates me to go for a walk in the woods so I head to Lintmill near Cullen, to inspect various features highlighted in a recent talk at the Cullen Deskford and Portknockie Heritage Group talk (events every first Monday of the month, heritage centre opening again in April – more details…
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Return to Upper Lagmore
I had a bit of a wobble the other weekend so I decided it was high time to return to Upper Lagmore, which provided me with much comfort on my previous visit. Free parking again was provided and gratefully received by the Ballindalloch distillery/golf course. From there I went up the track but turned left…
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Knock
My first visit to the mighty Knock was modest and enjoyable. I’d been wondering where to park the car to climb the hill [what would the ancients make of that i wonder]. Apparently you can use a small car park / layby at Swilebog but from there the ascent is straight up and anyway I…