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tiompan wrote: bladup wrote: How come nobody's even put this site on here? go on someone please do it! [the portal has it, but no photos], i have visited and have photos, it's just that i can't get to them yet [not since moving] and wouldn't know how to work a scanner anyway, it's a great stone circle [ with cairn ] and the stones are pointy and tall unlike the other circles around, eg Glenquicken, Torhousekie and Claughreid, it's more like the stones of cauldside burn, but bigger and better, if i remember right there's just over half the circle left, it's a lost treasure and just wondered if any TMA'ers lived in those parts, as it's a great place with everything else around anyway, that it's well worth a visit by anybody around that way, it's in books and is at NX539534 and seemed to me to be connected to Newton farm burial chamber nearer to the sea. Probably of this assessment "As they now stand, the stones of the setting do not form any sensible pattern, and it is not certain that they are all in situ: two of the stones in the N row could have been cleared from the field. The stone setting is unlikely to be the remains of a stone circle, and there is hardly enough evidence to warrant the suggestion that the cairn is chambered: the remains may simply be of two converging field dykes, almost entirely robbed out. " No i've been and it's a lot better [and completely different] than the description makes it sound, when i went i wasn't expecting much because of this description, but the standing stones are in a circle and it made me think the person who wrote the above description hadn't even been to the place, as what it says bares no relation to the treasure that's there, the only problem with the site is that the farmer has used the cairn for his field clearance, the standing stones are tall and are in a circle and it takes a good photo [ from a certain angle ] as my photos of the place are good [ the sun was setting ] but i can't get to them and the scanner is beyond me.  This topic is locked |  26th September 2012ce 18:40 In reply to: Re: High Auchenlarie stone circle, Dumfries+Galloway (tiompan) |
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