

29/04/2012 – Binghill
29/04/2012 – Binghill
eliptical shapes near Binghill
A wonderfully shaped stone.
2nd stone in the bushes.
This circle is almost complete – re-erect?
One of the two standing stones in the bushes.
Stones from the inner ring cairn.
Both flankers are fallen.
In amongst the trees whilst it positively lashed down all around.
The kerbs.
The recumbent and the fallen flankers.
29/04/2012 – Same route as Drew to get to the circle. Parking tricky at entrance to Binghill house so we parked a little south where the houses are (NJ 85400203). Not to keen on the big gates with Private on them to go through but had no problems. There is something about a circle when it’s now in a wood I really like. Sunny and with not much leaves on the trees yet it could still reach the stones. Binghill is a great little circle.
In the middle of Milltimber, a suburb of Aberdeen on the A93, find Contlaw Road (there is a pub at the junction) and move in a north Westerly direction. Just as the road is about to leave Milltimber take the farm lane that heads east and walk. This isn’t very good for cars. After about 11/2 miles a fork in the road will be reached. Look to the left and a path can be seen which leads to the circle and also a little mentioned cairn. (Keiller mentions it in Canmore)
The recumbent still stands with both it’s flankers lying on the ground beside it. Only two other stones stand with others all having a rest amongst the trees. To my thinking there also seems to be the remnants of a kerb cairn or an inner ring here as well. If the trees weren’t here the site would look onto the River Dee.
Visited 18/5/09.
I assume one of the stones here must be the owner of this story?
[referring to a stone at Skelmuir Hill:] Its position is accounted for in local tradition by its having fallen upon and crushed to death an old-time farmer who was digging below it in search of a bull’s hide full of gold. The same legend is told of two other monoliths in Aberdeenshire, one at Kildrummy and one at Binghill.
from ‘Report on the Stone Circles of the North-East of Scotland’ by Fred. R Coles, in PSAS 38 (1904).
The remains of a recumbent stone circle, with some photographs from 1902.