High Auchenlarie stone circle, Dumfries+Galloway

High Auchenlarie 1

bladup Sep 26, 2012 18:18:14

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 a cairn on the perimeter of the circle with a bit of horrible farm clearence on top of it! 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, there's 5 stones in an arc of a circle and one just outside the circle, the stone outside is either misplaced, an outlier or the remains of maybe a concentric circle, it's a lost treasure and i 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 as a stone circle [ john barnatt's, burls and others ] and is at NX539534 on farmland there, and seemed to me to be connected to Newton farm burial chamber down the hill and nearer to the sea. You can clearly see the stone circle [and it's stones] on google earth.

tiompan Sep 26, 2012 18:31:02

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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. "

Howburn Digger Sep 26, 2012 19:14:54

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I've spent a great deal of time in Galloway (it was my back door as a kid for holidays and it still remains so). I was there (and visited High Auchenlarie) thrice over the summer and spent a week at Gatehouse last October. I've a number of photos of the cairn but there seemed to be absolutely no discernable circle there at all. A lot of high-level field clearance for sure but I saw no circle. Some "stone settings" which probably are cairn kerb remnants (mibbe) and field dyke remnants (probably) jumbled around the area of a robbed cairn (though admittedly a rather nice one). Some of parts of those "stone settings" form two semi- portions-of-an-arc, but their geometry does not seem to relate to one another.
There is also a "new" circle/ stone setting nearby (1/2 km away) whose construction involved some movement of C&R stones/ boulders. I shall say nothing more of this.
I am back down at Gatehouse soon (for a week in mid-October) and I know the short distance along the hill from Lagganmullan to Auchenlarie very well. Some lovely recently found C&R panels and boulders strewn across the hillside. Many others submerged under turf, like this one from June 2012.

http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/img_fullsize/108048.jpg

I'll take plenty of pics - but I'm with Canmore on this one. By the way Tiompan - if you are down that way it is worth your while politely popping by Kirkdale House for a polite gander at the rockery...

Resonox Sep 27, 2012 22:00:27

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bladup wrote:

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.

I don't know when you visited and took your pics...but once you get them...your local Jessops will put them onto a disc or memory stick for you and you can post them via your PC that way.

High Auchenlarie stone circle, Dumfries+Galloway lock

High Auchenlarie stone circle, Dumfries+Galloway