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Looking northeast towards the Goatfell range.

Looking north towards what I assume is Mullach Buidhe (but happy to be corrected).

The layout of the chamber isn’t particularly easy to determine amongst the encroaching bracken.

Looking east towards Ard Bheinn. Machrie Moor itself is not visible due to lay of the intervening ground.

Looking southwest.

Looking northwest, you can just see Moss Farm North standing stone as a dot on the skyline slightly left of centre.

Looking towards Machrie Moor.

Moss Farm cist.

A slightly waterlogged Machrie XI.

The diminutive stones of Machrie XI.

Machrie I briefly illuminated. The low stones of Machrie XI can be seen far left.

Detail of Machrie I.

Machrie I with its alternating stones.

The iconic red sandstone slabs of Machrie II.

Machrie II.

Looking north across Machrie II.

Machrie II and Ard Bheinn.

Machrie III’s beautiful fluted upright.

Machrie III stump.

Cut-down stumps of Machrie III.

The impossibly iconic Machrie III with its single remaining red sandstone upright.

Looking north across Machrie IV.

Looking NE across Machrie IV four poster, towards the peaks of the Goatfell range.

Kerb on the edge of Machrie V.

Fingal’s Cauldron Seat – the hole where Fingal would tie up his dog Bran.

Fingal’s Cauldron Seat, the stone with the dog-tying hole in the foreground.

Machrie V, Fingal’s Cauldron Seat, looking east towards Ard Bheinn.

B and A, looking west towards The Torr.

Another side of Stone A.

Lovely Stone A.

B in the foreground.

Deer Park A and B, with Glenshant Hill behind.

Deer Park C, looking north-ish.

Deer Park C. The other two stones are over the hedge. The mountains are missing behind low cloud and drizzle.

Deer Park C, the easternmost of the three.

Excellent birds.

G/F thought this was a lynx-headed figure.

Ribbed and veined.