Re: Lack of stone circles north of Inverness? | Forum

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Howburn Digger Sep 23, 2011 08:04:15

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It's flow country - ever been? Imagine it after the last Ice Age....

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GLADMAN Sep 23, 2011 23:56:28

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summerlands wrote:

There are more than just those few, there's the likely stone circle (often referred to as cairn remains) by the Edderton Stone, Douglas Scott also indentified another possible a few km along the road I think which I've yet to find, there's possibility of one or two destroyed around Dunrobin, Bridge of Broubster, Backlass, Auchinduich by Lairg, Dailharraild / Clach an Righ, Learable Hill, there are others too...

One thing I do keep reading is about possible circles that get lost in forestry - and I wonder if you plant trees you loose a circle, esp an already damamged one, in or to trees a lot easier than a cairn. Lot's of cairns still traceable in woods, but I can't think off top of many standing stones or circles known amongst trees around here...

The circles we do know tend to be of quite modest stones. I personally recon we've lost quite a number. But I agree it's definitely not stone country like the likes of other areas.

Yeah, get the point re forestry.... it swallows up massive long cairns, let alone stone circles, so guess the challenge is on you locals to post sites for us sassenachs to visit. Local knowledge....

Essex is an odd place. I've only discovered this year that we've got a couple of hillforts ranking up there with the UK's best.... both totally private, hidden in trees and out of bounds to the general public.

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GLADMAN Sep 23, 2011 23:56:29

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summerlands wrote:

There are more than just those few, there's the likely stone circle (often referred to as cairn remains) by the Edderton Stone, Douglas Scott also indentified another possible a few km along the road I think which I've yet to find, there's possibility of one or two destroyed around Dunrobin, Bridge of Broubster, Backlass, Auchinduich by Lairg, Dailharraild / Clach an Righ, Learable Hill, there are others too...

One thing I do keep reading is about possible circles that get lost in forestry - and I wonder if you plant trees you loose a circle, esp an already damamged one, in or to trees a lot easier than a cairn. Lot's of cairns still traceable in woods, but I can't think off top of many standing stones or circles known amongst trees around here...

The circles we do know tend to be of quite modest stones. I personally recon we've lost quite a number. But I agree it's definitely not stone country like the likes of other areas.

Yeah, get the point re forestry.... it swallows up massive long cairns, let alone stone circles, so guess the challenge is on you locals to post sites for us sassenachs to visit. Local knowledge....

Essex is an odd place. I've only discovered this year that we've got a couple of hillforts ranking up there with the UK's best.... both totally private, hidden in trees and out of bounds to the general public.

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Resonox Sep 24, 2011 06:03:48

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summerlands wrote:

One thing I do keep reading is about possible circles that get lost in forestry - and I wonder if you plant trees you loose a circle, esp an already damamged one, in or to trees a lot easier than a cairn. Lot's of cairns still traceable in woods, but I can't think off top of many standing stones or circles known amongst trees around here...

The circles we do know tend to be of quite modest stones. I personally recon we've lost quite a number. But I agree it's definitely not stone country like the likes of other areas.

The barrows in Reigate Heath have trees planted in them(apparently a Victorian thing....anyone know why??)....and it may have been a common practice elsewhere. "Forests" as we know the expression was a Norman creation and were hunting areas(hence Ashdown forest for eg being thin on the ground tree-wise)...We know stones were removed for building purposes in many instances.....and some places still have "stone" in the name though the general concensus is that this is a bastardisation of tun/ton/town(ie a settlement)...it might be that a stone once stood prominently in some of these places though. There are a few Surrey and Sussex places with "stone" in the name...but no sign of any circles....Redstone being one exception as there is a tumulus on the common(in line with the small twin hills of St. Johns below...there is a church on one and on the other a school )