Balgorkar Stone Circle View all content for Balgorkar

(notes from Balgorkar, 30 June 00) Balgorkar is easily visible from the road 300 metres away, but at the time of our visit the Modern Antiquarian's friendly cows had been replaced by ripening barley. As we'd have to walk through crops (ie trample someone's livelihood) to see the stones we made a point of finding somebody in the adjacent houses to ask permission. The woman we spoke to told us that she goes up to the trees by the field sometimes, "beautiful clear nights and big moons over the moonstones in the corner of the field". The lunar connection of the stones resonating so deeply with this casual observer that she calls the two outliers 'moonstones'! The outliers are to the east, and according to the map some 600 metres beyond them (the other side of the Castle Fraser estate) is a solitary standing stone. We walked up the copse to the north of Balgorkar and crossed through the barley. There are several fallen stones and some missing entirely, but the raised ground inside the circle gives a sudden sense of hovering over the land that makes it a very commanding place. The circle's a metre deep in grasses and weeds, but several cairn stones are still obvious. On our way back to the road, we found a stone in the copse. It's leaning against a tree, which means it was moved recently (the tree must've been there first). It's not huge, but it is big enough to catch your eye and make you wonder if it was once in the circle.

Posted by Merrick 7th August 2000ce

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