Near Forres? Oo! Loads!!! Big shame Jane hasn't blogged Aberdeen yet.... Hope I'm not too late!!!

Immediate thoughts are....

Top of the list has to be East (er) Aquhorthies, I'd say. And yup - the one near the airport, Tyrebagger (or Dyce) is cool! If you're using the A96, they're pretty close to it.

And there's Balquhain, which I've still never seen up close coz it's always in crop when I go (it was 2 weeks ago). You can even see that from the A96 - very clearly if you know vaguely where to look!

Or a detour up the B9119 would give you Cullerie (or Cullerlie) - too restored & manicured for some peeps, Sunhoney (wonderful but grass is very long at the mo) and Midmar Kirk (ace!).

Then there are the various 'Dunnideer sites' near Insch, but tbh they're all pretty ruined & only have a big effect if you can do 'em all.

But if pushed, I'd say if you're A96ing & wanna spend a bit of time at each site, you couldn't do any better than Tyrebagger http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/196
East (er) Aquhorthies http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/188
& Balquhain http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/184

Enjoy whatever you see!!!

love

Moth

I guess I'm too late for you, tuesday, but just in case anyone else looks this up, one little site that's cute as a bug and very interesting is Templestone, http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/8487. I mention it here because the very nice lady in whose back yard cum horse pasture the stones live told us tours often came from Findhorn to see her stones.

Burl's directions to it were out of date: a new little development seems to have been built since his survey. We had to knock on a door and a neighbor directed us.

thanks for the tips Moth et al.- east aquorthies and loanhead and the broken circle nearby were just amazing - never seen a recumbent circle before so naturally blown away. they're just coming out of the walls around inverurie aren't they? it's inspiring. bennachie blew me away too

the one in forres next time I hope

then onto skye where vatten and the stones by the loch are keeping guard til we peel back the peat and find the rest that are surely there but still hiding from the wee frees. the Manners stone a sad site tho' -some asshole farmer pulled it down because 'people like to visit it' apparently..and all those funny cairns by Neist Point. Bumps and odd rocks everywhere - who can tell what is what? these were the same people who made Callanish right? - so there is no way there isn't loads more to discover.. I wish I had more time