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Camster Stone Row

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<b>Camster Stone Row</b>Posted by tumulusImage © Martin McCarthy
Nearest Town:Wick (12km NE)
OS Ref (GB):   ND260438 / Sheets: 11, 12
Latitude:58° 22' 35.52" N
Longitude:   3° 15' 55.43" W

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This stone row is just a few hundred yards from the Grey Cairns of Camster. According to CANMORE there are actually six rows here but they're disappearing under the peat. I found two of the rows. A couple of stones are maybe a metre proud of the peat. Others have only a few centimetres showing.

Don't go hunting in wet weather or you may get sucked into the bog and never seen again!!
tumulus Posted by tumulus
14th October 2004ce

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My web page for this site.
tumulus Posted by tumulus
14th October 2004ce

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<b>Lower Camster</b>Posted by Nucleus<b>Lower Camster</b>Posted by Nucleus<b>Lower Camster</b>Posted by Nucleus Nucleus Posted by Nucleus
25th December 2019ce

Lower Camster (Stone Row / Alignment) — Fieldnotes

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’.
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20th August 2014ce

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tumulus Posted by tumulus
14th October 2004ce

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<b>Lower Camster</b>Posted by tumulus<b>Lower Camster</b>Posted by tumulus<b>Lower Camster</b>Posted by tumulus tumulus Posted by tumulus
14th October 2004ce

Lower Camster (Stone Row / Alignment) — Fieldnotes

Three fairly small stones - CANMORE thinks one of them might just be a random boulder rather than part of a setting with the two definite megaliths.
The stones are near the road and in a very empty bit of flat moor, but they're low enough to be easily missed when the heather is thick.

"Small stones in flat featureless moor" sounds pretty dull, but it's a lovely site!
tumulus Posted by tumulus
14th October 2004ce