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thelonious wrote: I was looking at the Modern Antiquarian database on Google Earth just now and it stuck me how few stone circles there are on the mainland, north of Inverness. Looks like about 3 in the whole of north mainland Scotland. This seems so few when you think about the number in north east scotland and the great circles in the outer hebrides and Orkney. any reasons for this do you think? This is interesting; I've been dipping into a copy of Rude Stone Monuments by James Fergusson (first published 1872). I can't find the exact passage right now but he makes the observation that the significant stone circles of Scotland seem to be on the islands e.g. Orkey, Lewis, Arran - down to the Isle of Man where they join up with the Cumbrian stone circles. We can only speculate but I wonder if the builders of these stone circles were sea-going traders who took their culture south (or vice versa). Reply | with quote |  22nd September 2011ce 19:18 In reply to: Lack of stone circles north of Inverness? (thelonious) |
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