Corrstones

Also known as:
Corrstone Wood
Nearest town:
Huntly (12km N)
OS reference:
NJ510272
OS sheet:
37
Latitude:
57° 19' 57.88 N
Longitude:
2° 48' 50.33 W
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Images

Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thelonious

02/01/2013 – Corrstones stone circle with Tap o’Noth through the trees

thelonious
thelonious Jan 2, 2013
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by GLADMAN

A bit of landscape perspective. The circle.... or rather the sad, surviving fragment of it... resides within the copse of trees to the far centre left of the image. Tap O’ Noth overwhelms all, top right.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 7, 2012
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

The recumbent and flankers from outside of the circle.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

This was a big circle in its prime.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Broken-off stump of one of the stones, still in position.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Looking across the sunlit circle. The recumbent and standing flanker are on the left of the picture. Various stones are lying where they have fallen. A contender for sensitive restoration?

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

One of the fallen stones, damaged by machine tools (presumably it was eyed-up as a gate or fence post).

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

The recumbent and flankers (one fallen).

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 28, 2011
Image of Corrstones (Stone Circle) by greywether

The 4.3m long broken recumbent and the W flanker from inside the circle.

greywether
greywether Oct 24, 2005

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Corrstones

thelonious
thelonious Jan 2, 2013
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02/01/2013 – Slowly working my way through the recumbent stone circles. I’ve looked at this one from Tap o’Noth a few times but never visited. Today the weather was good so after we got back to the car from visiting the hillfort I thought we’d give it a go. The circle is in a small copse of trees not far from the road. We parked pretty much south and walked along the edge of a field to get to it. Barbed wire fence blocked our way but with a New Year spring in our step we were soon over and into the wood (if only that was true, we got over eventually though). What a cracking circle this must have been back in the day. Just one stone still standing with a few others lying where they fell. I liked this one very much.

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Corrstones

greywether
greywether Oct 24, 2005

There was no sign of the “discarded cack” on this visit – just the “beautifully tranquil place”

Visited 18 October 2005

Corrstones

Merrick
Merrick Aug 7, 2000

(notes in the evening sunshine looking west to Tap O’Noth, 2 July 00)

These Corrstones stand on the hilltop overlooking the foot of the Tap O’Noth. Although the Silbury aspect is decreased by the revealing of the whole mountain, Tap O’Noth still has a powerful presiding feeling here. Corrstones is certainly a near ruin, but, as at Hawk Hill, the positioning is very arresting. A gentle conical hill surrounded on all sides by farmland, this place has become a monster farm dump. These trees around the stones are shelter not only for so much field clearance stone that only a couple of fallen Corrstones are distinguishable but there’s also an assortment of other discarded cack, even an old 1960s-looking car on its side!

Still, the grove, the situation and the view are big enough not to be dominated by it, and a tremendous sense of place affects us, and others too; a small patterned stone had been recently reverentially placed at the recumbent.

Following from the recumbent to the south-western edge of the copse we find that from here six hills in four layers conspire to make a straight-lined horizon! Moving westward round the edge of the trees to face Tap O’Noth, some inquisitive bullocks and the setting sun, the composite horizon is still a straight line but already from this angle it’s stopped being level and now slopes down to the left. Corrstones hill, where the Tap O’Noth starts in the valley below and the south-western horizon is horizontal! What must the ancients have made of *that*?

This is a beautifully tranquil place and truly I could stay here for hours, here in the sunshine being sniffed at by bovines, but it’s our last full day up here and the call across the valley to Cnoc Cailliche is just too strong.

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