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Winter Solstice 'Secret Stone Circle' visit The council are inviting you to 'soak up at the atmosphere at a well hidden stone circle as the daylight of the shortest day fades' on Sunday 21st December. You must book in advance by telephoning 01771 622857 and will meet at Drinnies Wood car park, near Fetterangus... continues... Comments (7)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Chris 30th October 2009ce

North East Stone Circles In Westhill Exhibition Photographer prefers black and white shots. By Donna MacLarty. Published by the Press and Journal, 20/10/09. Further info : http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/article... continues... Comments (2)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 20th October 2009ce Edited 21st October 2009ce

Digging Dog's Archaeological Find A dog proved to be a canine Indiana Jones by finding a stone axe head dating back thousands of years in Aberdeenshire. Rowan the inquisitive black labrador unearthed the Neolithic find at the Drum Estate... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by pebblesfromheaven 8th December 2006ce Edited 8th December 2006ce

Two new books on RSCs from RCAHMS After years without any books on the Recumbent Stone Circles of Aberdeenshire, we will get two in the next couple of years - to quote Adam Welfare at RCAHMS: "You may be interested to learn that we are presently working on two books about Aberdeenshire... continues... Comments (3)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Chris 24th October 2006ce

Fires Lit At Stone Circle To Mark Shortest Day Andy Philip 09:00 - 22nd December 2005 Fires were lit at an Aberdeenshire stone circle last night to mark the winter solstice. The Breemie stones, at Broomhill, by Lyne of Skene, attracted people for quiet reflection as they watched the sun set on the shortest day of the year... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Running Elk 28th December 2005ce Edited 28th December 2005ce

Festival held in Recumbent Stone Circle - First time in thousands of years Breemie Recumbent Stone Circle, Lyne of Skene, Aberdeenshire A Festival for the "mind, body and spirit" is being held at a modern stone circle in Aberdeenshire this summer, organised by a shamanic healer... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Running Elk 11th May 2005ce Edited 13th May 2005ce

Historians lay siege to secrets of hill forts and sheilings http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/37715.html Archaeologists are turning their attention to one of Scotland's most historically overlooked areas by scheduling scores of ancient and modern sites dating from 4000BC to the cold war era... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 21st April 2005ce Edited 21st April 2005ce

Eagle secret of Bronze Age burial From The Scotsman, 24 November 2004 Archaeologists in Scotland have made a "hugely significant" discovery by unearthing the best and most comprehensively-dated Bronze Age site in the UK, The Scotsman has learned... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Jane 24th November 2004ce Edited 24th November 2004ce

Aberdeen 'Flying Archaeologist' Talk Tomorrow 1st Sept Moira Greig, an archaeologist with Aberdeenshire Council, has been carrying out an aerial survey of the north-east since the early 1990s and has discovered a significant number of new sites... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 31st August 2004ce

Discovery of Neolithic building at Crathes Castle Archaeologists startled to discover Neolithic ritual site - Frank Urquhart in 'The Scotsman' http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 1st June 2004ce

First recumbent stone circle built for 6000 years From the Press and Journal- Aberdeenshire shaman builds a new recumbent circle with another one planned soon; http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=62692&command=displayContent&sourceNode=62244&contentPK=10013530 Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Martin 21st May 2004ce

ARP 2004 Conference- 29/5/04 This years Archaeological Research in Progress conference in Aberdeen on the 29th May will examine recent and ongoing projects in the North East of Scotland. The programme looks interesting including a talk entilted 'The moon and the bonfire: recent excavations at recumbent stone circles'. Full details here; http://www.britarch.ac.uk/csa/arp.html Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Martin 12th May 2004ce Edited 12th May 2004ce

Ancient Flints Found on Cairngorms http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3581355.stm Archaeologists are excited by a discovery which they say proves that early Scottish settlers travelled through the Cairngorms 7,000 years ago... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 2nd April 2004ce

Details of Ancient Burial Site in Scotland An Ancient burial site, which was unearthed by workers preparing land for a massive gas pipeline, has proved to be a mine of information about Scottish people of the Bronze Age... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Kozmik_Ken 12th February 2004ce Edited 12th February 2004ce

Carved Stone Balls Exhibition "Carved Stone Balls - a Prehistoric Mystery" The exhibition runs January 19 - March 31 2004 at the Marischal Museum in Aberdeen... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 29th January 2004ce Edited 29th January 2004ce

New Official Ancient Monument Thanks to Fiona Young who sent in this article from her local Aberdeenshire newspaper: "Stone Circle Named As Ancient Monument" by Audrey Innes The remains of a group of North-east standing stones, which date back more than 5,000 years, look set to be named as an official ancient monument later this year... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by JoAnne Wilder 15th July 2000ce

Cairngorms Plateau We received this from EagleEye: Cairn Gorm mountain (4th highest in Scotland) and the highly sensitive Cairngorms plateau is under serious threat from the building of a funicular railway and visitors centre. The RSPB and WWF lost a long and expensive legal battle... continues... Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by JoAnne Wilder 15th April 2000ce

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"Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in deserted places, Standing stones on the vacant wine-red moor, Hills of sheep, and the howes of the silent vanished races, And winds, austere and pure." Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 From Songs of Travel Blagged from an Aberdeenshire Council pamphlet "The Stone Circle." Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by fitzcoraldo 7th February 2007ce

The circle I helped build is at Lyne of Skene (hill above BA stores) on the owners land, Allan Brownie. If you look over the recumbent (SW horizon)it is aligned to the Barmekin Hill (Iron Age hill fort on top). However when looking at an OS map afterwards I noticed that it also lines up with the stones at Wester Echt, Midmar Kirk, Sunhoney Stone circle and a ceremonial site, Blackyduds on the Hill of Fare on the far horizon. We felt guided from the beginning of this project which was a loose idea in late 2003 when I started Sacred Way tours and met Allan. We had one day to build it this year and it happened to be on Beltane. The next day was a red moon lunar eclipse which activated the circle and niether of us was aware of this lunar happening until after it had happened. The following weekend Allan held the annual BA Agricultural Vintage fair with all the stall holders around the circle. It was amazing to see that 6000 years later some 7000 people from the surrounding farming communities and Aberdeen would once again meet and be engaged at a stone circle, as I believe would have happened in the original communities. I have been asked to build other circles but feel that if the alignment etc is not correct then I will not be involved in it. These circles serve an 'energy' purpose as much today as they did by the original creators. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Running Elk 26th May 2004ce Edited 26th May 2004ce

Aberdeen University held an exhibition of carved stone balls earlier this year. Some 70 were on display - which must be pretty well their entire collection. They have about eight or so on permanent display and these were supplemented by five cases of rarely seen items. Images of all of these are posted here. A couple of apologies. I had no tripod so some from the permanent display (which were in a dark corner) are blurred. Posted nevertheless as they still give some idea of the decoration. Also, I've lost the names of two of the findposts. The balls in the cases are shown from two angles. Some background info on the balls. 411 known examples at the last count. Vast majority 7cm diameter. 12 at 9-11 cm and some oval ones. Stone used varies considerably - sandstone, quartzite, gneiss, ... Distribution - largely Aberdeenshire, Grampians. Also other parts of Scotland. Five found outside Scotland. Context/Date - Skara Brae finds are late Neolithic. Reports of some finds in Bronze Age contexts but none from recent well-documented excavations. Purpose? The exhibition offered no real explanation so it's open season on that one! Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by greywether 21st May 2004ce Edited 21st May 2004ce

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Folklore of the Aberdeenshire Stone Circles and Standing Stones Good paper by James Richie. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by faerygirl 2nd June 2010ce Edited 2nd June 2010ce

Extreme Stonefeelers' World of Hard Rock & Standing Stones Lots of pics of Aberdeenshire stone circles etc. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by new abbey 10th April 2010ce Edited 10th April 2010ce

The Lemur Project LEMUR (LEarning with MUseum Resources) allows you to see online the holdings of the University of Aberdeen. This link takes you to their collection of pleasing Neolithic/Bronze Age 'carved stone balls', most of which were found in Aberdeenshire. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Rhiannon 23rd April 2007ce

RSC resources PSAS articles This link takes you to the PSAS volume index. Volumes 34 to 39 inclusive contain articles on RSCs which, despite their age, are almost indispensible. They comprise a six-part survey by Fred Coles of (probably) all the stone circles in Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire including fine ground plans and stone measurements in each case. Many site entries have excellent drawings of the stones (not so good on human figures though!) and, of course, it is always interesting to hear what the writer has to say about the circles based on the local knowledge around at the start of the last century. Volume 102 has an article by Burl on RSCs including grid references on 74 definite and 18 probable RSC sites. These PSAS references are all PDF articles, many of them very long. Other web sites Megalithics at http://www.megalithics.com/scotland.htm has some good movie panoramas of RSCs including some of the lesser well known ones. This Aberdeen University site http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lib266/stones/main.htm#index has wide coverage of RSCs and other sites. Especially good on directions Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by greywether 5th April 2005ce Edited 5th April 2005ce

Sacred Way Tours Personal day tours of Aberdeenshires recumbent stone circles, hillforts etc. Local information, picture gallery, booking online facility etc. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Running Elk 26th May 2004ce Edited 26th May 2004ce

Aberdeenshire Archaeology Service View the Sites and Monuments list online (v. useful). Clickable maps of sites to visit. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by greywether 22nd March 2004ce

Archaeolink Family friendly archaeological visitor centre. 25 Miles from Aberdeen. Indoor and outdoor activities. Covers neolithic - iron age periods, with a reconstruction of roundhouse etc. I liked it, so did the missus and the bairn. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by Hob 16th March 2004ce Edited 18th June 2007ce

Friends of Grampian Stones Aberdeenshire recumbent stone circles, Pictish stones, legends, images. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by nickbrand 19th December 2002ce

Loudon Wood (Stone Circle) — Images (click to view fullsize)

Posted by GLADMAN 21st August 2010ce

Gallows Hill 'Hanging Stone' (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Images

Posted by drewbhoy 18th August 2010ce

Tom Dubh (Cairn(s)) — Fieldnotes

Sadly this cairn will gradually fade into memory thanks to farming and deforestry. Marks of damage can already be seen. Still it is 8.5 meters wide standing at 0.5 meters tall, looks taller because of the growth. Somehow I contrived to walk back down the hill and forget about a much larger cairn some 60 meters to the south. Doesn't matter as I would think my feet will be back in this area fairly soon. Pull into the farm, east, after Migvie church and follow the track heading in a north easterly direction until the fir trees. The cairn is near the farm rubbish. Visited 3/08/2010. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 15th August 2010ce

Tom Dubh (Cairn(s)) — Images

Posted by drewbhoy 15th August 2010ce

Newlands Of Oyne (Cist) — Links

ADS.AHDS The detailed account of the excavation by Professor Alexander Low during 1935. There are pictures of the cist, urn and various other finds. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 15th August 2010ce

Mither Tap (Hillfort) — Miscellaneous

'On the summit of Mither Tap (1698 feet) are the ruins of what is probably a Pictish fort. It was an enormous structure, the total circumference of which must have been over 700 feet. The outer wall is fully fifteen feet in thickness and is carefully built with well coursed masonry having a rampart walk and a parapet. Inside the protected area were found the remains of around ten hut circles, a well and a second wall.' Algy Watson. Oyne Past and Present. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 15th August 2010ce

Newlands Of Oyne (Cist) — Miscellaneous

'Two graves of an early historical age, containing some bones and dust, and at least one burial urn were found on the farm of Newlands. In the beginning of August, 1932, the cover stone of a short cist was discovered while excavation was taking place for material to repair the road leading up to the farm of Newlands. On raising this stone a short cist was uncovered on the floor of which lay the remains of a human skeleton and an urn. Mr. George Murray, the farmer, removed the urn to his house, left the bones undisturbed and replaced the cover so that the burial might be examined by one familiar with such deposits. This was a typical short cist of the early Bronze Age and was formed by four slabs set on edge, one at each side and one at each end. The urn which belongs to the beaker class was found intact apart from two cracks on opposite sides of the lip.' Algy Watson. Oyne Past and Present. Comments (0)  |  Add a comment  |  Permalink

Posted by drewbhoy 15th August 2010ce