thelonious wrote:
I was looking at the Modern Antiquarian database on Google Earth just now and it stuck me how few stone circles there are on the mainland, north of Inverness. Looks like about 3 in the whole of north mainland Scotland. This seems so few when you think about the number in north east scotland and the great circles in the outer hebrides and Orkney. any reasons for this do you think?
Probably because there are many more to add, but relatively few TMA'ers who live North of Inverness - definitely a case of quality over quantity though!North of the Great Glen fault, land use is distinctly different to the rest of Scotland. Agriculture and civilisation is mainly restricted to the relatively narrow coastal plain (now and in the past I presume) and as Summerlands has pointed out, there are many good examples of stone circles within these small areas.
