Image of Ardlair (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Zoom on the outliers from the circle. Bennachie provides the backdrop.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)

thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011

strathspey Mar 29, 2011 09:55

Good pic - nice perspective

thesweetcheat Mar 30, 2011 19:49

Cheers Strathie, it makes for a nice setting doesn't it?

strathspey Mar 30, 2011 20:55

Sure does. Great trip for you BTW. DB will have you an adopted son of Drewland next!!

thesweetcheat Mar 30, 2011 21:00

Ha ha! Well, we'll certainly be going back, there's a lifetime's worth of stuff to see there.

strathspey Mar 30, 2011 21:14

Aye and DB is doing a grand job of sharing it with us. I'm still amazed at how much of prehistory survives in Aberdeenshire in such an intensively farmed area. Haste ye back!! Your reports and pics have been well received in this corner of the Highlands.

drewbhoy Mar 30, 2011 21:30

Craigshannoch (left), Mither Tap (hillfort middle) and Oxen Craig (cairn right). Oxen Craig is higher than the Mither Tap by 10 feet.

thesweetcheat Mar 30, 2011 21:33

Many thanks Strathie. Drew deserves the credit for the site selection too, all of which were great choices but not "show" sites.

Thanks for the extra info there Drew.

drewbhoy Mar 31, 2011 21:43

Your are welcome, to the far right just below the treeline is the ancient settlement of Tillymuick. You could spend a lifetime looking at/for places between the Tap and Benn.

Ardlair