Lower Camster Stone Row / Alignment View all content for Lower Camster

Visited 24.7.14 Directions: About 1 mile further north of the famous Grey Cairns of Camster. Just keep heading up the road and you will see the standing stones on your right. My O/S map shows three standing stones but I could only spot 2 of them amid the tall spiky grass – both of which are visible from the road although not obvious. The adjacent wind turbines dominate the area. Whilst searching around for the ‘missing’ stone I was constantly surrounded by a mass of flies. Perhaps they were after the salt in my sweat on this hot, sticky day. Or perhaps I just smelt! I was planning on having a look at the nearby broch but unfortunately ran out of time. CANMORE state: ‘Three small stone slabs stand in heather moorland immediately E of the minor road from Watten to Lybster. The southernmost stands immediately E of the road and measures 0.8m in height by 0.22m in thickness – there is an O/S bench-mark on its SSE face. The second stone, which also stands immediately E of the road, measures 0.5m in height and 0.4m in thickness. The northernmost stone measures 0.8m in height by 0.25m in thickness’.

Posted by CARL 20th August 2014ce

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