Category: Ancient sites
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Beltane Lagmore
On my way back from visiting the Cairn distillery, I twifelled a bit then decided of course I should stop at Upper Lagmore to say hello to this most powerful of sites. Indeed, I got a tingle when I approached and it felt good to be there. The weather was poor and the photos are…
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Cairns up by Tain with Drew
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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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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…
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Easter Aquhorties
Again a dark visit to Aquhorties recumbent stone circle, this time by design rather than accident! I was hoping the moon was out to play so I could investigate if the ancients watched the glowing sphere roll along the recumbent stone *but* it was of course a cloudy night. Recumbent stones are characterised by always…
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Standing with Stones – A journey through megalithic Britain – The Prehistory Guys
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Raich stone circle
As I wrote over at Frendraught recumbent stone circle, which I visited earlier the same day, I parked in Forgue in the empty car park of the Scott Hall. I was still happy to be in the wood but after visiting the mess of Frendraught, I was hoping Raich would be in a better state.…