Tag: Recumbent stone circle

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Frendraught recumbent stone circle

    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…