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A great photo - includes a baldy geezer with a crackin shirt.
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I can't describe this - to be seen to be believed.
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October 2002.
Visited here with my 2 oldest friends Norie of the photos and George. We didn't tell George where we were going - but anyway.
Asked permission from the old couple at Crofthead Farm and went to the stones.
The higher up, north pair of standing stones sit quietly at the side of a stream. I read on the Ancient Scotland website that the tip of the tallest of these two stones may mirror a distant peak in the Lomond Hills on the Southern horizon above the Keillour Forest.
A hundred yards to the south, down the hill are two large boulder type stones which may be the remains of one stone which has been split.
The megalithic culture remained strong in this area - you can visit a giant pictish carved stone inside the church in the village - there is also a full sized replica of this stone which stands in the village.
We headed out towards Perth.
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We parked and asked permission at Dalchilra farm.
The stones sit low on the Machany Water Valley downstream from the Dunruchan Hill stones.
The solitary north-western stone stands proud about 12 feet from the level of the field although it's hard to judge it's true size as it looks as if it may be propped up by the pile of stones which surround it. This looks as if it might be a re-erection job although it's hard to say. If this is the original state of the monument then it's pretty unusual.
The two other stones sit in a nearby field to the south-east.
The larger of the two stones has weathered cup markings on it's east face near to the base of the stone.
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We travelled from the North on the A76. Just after the town of Mauchline we turned right onto a minor road (it's the last right turn before the A76 crosses the River Ayr). We parked a couple of hundred yards down this road. At this point there is a style on the right hand side of the road and a path then takes you over a grassy field then into the woods. Just into the woods you cross a little wooden bridge and just after that there is a rough path which goes up an embankment from the right hand side of the main footpath. Follow this rough path and persevere for a couple of hundred yards until you get to the walls.
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Good photos, directions and well presented.
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Some good photos and brief, personal descriptions.
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8/6/02
We walked from the village car park, over the disused railway bridge over the Dochart and then into the estate. We got permission at the house and cautiously walked passed the cows and calves.
The sun was hot but the field the ground was heavy as it had been raining heavily the previous day.
What a place though. It's such a well preserved, compact little circle. The River, just a few hundred yards to the west of the circle, flows northwards towards Loch Tay.
I sat down in the middle of the circle and heard kids playing by the house, the peacock and a chainsaw up in the woods above the field with the rocky, Sron a Chlachain looking down from the west.
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