Upper Ord

Nearest town:
Huntly (13km NNE)
OS reference:
NJ482269
OS sheet:
37
Latitude:
57° 19' 47.06 N
Longitude:
2° 51' 37.53 W
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Image of Upper Ord (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

Looking SW-ish. If you drew a line from the circle through the Drewmobile and onwards, it would probably just about hit Wheedlemont stone circle a few fields away.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 27, 2011
Image of Upper Ord (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

I think it’s fair to say that Tap o’ Noth likely played a part in the siting of this circle.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 27, 2011
Image of Upper Ord (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

The nearer stone looks as though it could fall to pieces at any minute, belying its resistance to the passing of several thousand years.

Image credit: A. Brookes/AMJ (17.3.2011)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Mar 27, 2011

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Upper Ord

tiompan
tiompan May 8, 2006

The remains of a possible recumbent stone circle . The area to the west has turned up some marked rocks , a rarity in the county. The hill in the pics is Tap o’ Noth and the azimuth from stones to summit is within 0.4 of a degree from true North.

Upper Ord

Merrick
Merrick Aug 7, 2000

Back towards Tap O’Noth by 500 metres from the Cnoc Cailliche stones, and the stones here at Templand appear tiny in their field until we realise that the grass isn’t grass, it’s knee-deep young wheat that prevents us getting right up to the stones. Modern Antiquarian says two stones, OS map says remains of a stone circle. From here Tap O’Noth is again a peak only, and, as Cope say, a pretty precise Dunnideer shape, in fact. When you think how familiar the builders were with this landscape and the shapes of the hills on it, and their obvious reverence for Dunnideer, the positioning of these stones must surely have been to deliberately to give this effect.

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