Category: RSC
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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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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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Frendraught recumbent stone circle
I went to Forgue and parked at the Walter Scott hall (in use but closed when I was there). I walked up past the school and into the woods. On reflection, it seems a strange place to put a school – right up a hill on the edge of a village – but I suppose…
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Rhynie and more
My heritage society comrade had doublebooked himself and hence could not join the excursion so we resecheduled and I went to visit the Pictish power centre of Rhynie instead. It did not disappoint! Before moving up here, I didn’t know much beyond the blue-painted dreadlocked warrior stereotype of the Picts. Unsurprisingly, things turn out to…
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Milton of Rothiemay recumbent stone circle
I have to admit to being slightly underwhelmed by this RSC. I think it was more the day itself, I was feeling stressed and the ruined nature of the RSC didn’t help. But that’s not to say visiting the stone circle didn’t have an impact. The recumbent is HUGE and has over 100 cupmarks. So…
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Mapped list of recumbent stone circles
A very handy list – https://osm4wiki.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/wiki/wiki-osm.pl?project=en&article=List_of_recumbent_stone_circles