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Personal day tours of Aberdeenshires recumbent stone circles, hillforts etc. Local information, picture gallery, booking online facility etc.

Someone has posted more pictures and drawings of the Weetwood Moor carvings here.

A kinda letters page including a description of rows & carved stones in the Winter Hill area.

Robert W E Farrah’s interpretation of the sacred landscape around Mayburgh Henge and its possible orientation towards Blencathra.

Victoria and Paul Morgan’s research into the stones.

Time Team’s report on the discovery and excavation of the Carsington Pasture Cave.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Extract from English Heritage’s record of scheduled monuments, via the MAGIC site.

Please Note – this link takes you directly to a PDF document. You will need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.

Page with aerial photo of the site and limited information.

For a comprehensive review of entoptic imagery in rock art.
Not just substance induced patterns, as is often bandied about, but also naturally occuring phosphenes.

It’s an old review (’95), based on even older material (mostly 70s). But it’s a subject that may attract interest due to the current trends in Cognitive Archaeology.

Two photographs of Robin Hood’s Stone and some information (towards the bottom of the page).

“Cognitive archaeology is the branch of archaeology that investigates the development of human cognition. It therefore deals with a great variety of evidence, ranging from early rock art to other forms of palaeoart, from animal cognition to palaeoanthropology to psychology and ontogenic cognitive development, and it also needs to concern itself with evidence of early human technology and the ability of domesticating natural systems of energy.”

Good link at the bottom to a site on the age of rock art

This link argues that a prehistoric trackway passed by the Devils Arrows. Since it was written, Catterick henge has been discovered. A line drawn between Catterick Henge and the Arrows cuts through the centre of Cana Barn and Hutton Moor Henges. Furthermore, if extended south it cuts through Newton Kyme henge.

The fact that three of these henges are identical`and that they are built on a stright alignment gives strength to the suggestion that a dead stright overland route existed in the Neolithic period.

Sula Diving’s crannog project. Photos prior to work

Four photos of Cronk ny Merriu, along with a description and directions by car, bus and railway. Can’t recommend this web site enough for travel information, although this page is a bit thin on information about the site itself (Cronk ny Merriu I mean).

This has to be the most entertaining link on this website. Design yourself a torc, visit the druid and the gods, build a fort... – and you can hear it all in Welsh or English

This version of the tale of the Lambton Worm, from Edwin Sidney Hartland’s 1890 English Fairy and Other Folk Tales also makes no mention of Penshaw Hill. It is notable for the poem it contains, in which the worm’s death is described: I have never encountered this particular version anywhere else.

A photograph of Hasting Hill.

A page by David Radcliffe, with three photos and a description on it. One of the photos shows a stone with the end of a splitting wedge lodged in it (which I managed to miss on my visit).