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A ritual centre in Moray?
This field between Bleachfield cottage and Leitchestown farm in Deskford, Moray, is most famous for the discovery of the Deskford carnyx (an Iron age war trumpet) around 1816. A labourer (great great grandfather of a man who lived in the cottage where I write this text) was digging for peat and came across fragments of the carnyx…
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Lagmore circles
Wow! What a fantastic way to spend a few hours on the last day of 2024 🙂 I first tried to get to Marionburgh circle but the gate was shut with a sign saying no access, I’m not sure how that interlinks with the freedom to roam but I thought I’d return if the other…
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Bobby Fingers
Wow this guy is quite the mad genius!!
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Durn Hill
This was a lovely solstice walk up durn hill for the first time, if a touch on the windy side. Getting there meant a drive via the carnyx find site and past Gaulcross. I parked at the quarry which is disused but it looks like Aberdeenshire council sometimes uses the site for storage, so don’t…
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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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Spicy library
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Save Cullen library
Pic to come
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Gamrie excursion
This excursion was great fun and the august representatives of the heritage group were blessed with fine weather as we travelled about the countryside merrily in a convoy of three cars.
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Bloomin pheasants
I guess it’s all part and parcel of being a free zone that you would end up with refugee pheasants. It reminds me of my last place where they used to get stuck one of oen side of the gate, one on the other. They appear … they skulk around … they squawk. I do…