An absolutely superb place!!!
drewbhoy
The cup marked rock has some querns to keep it company.
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On the other side of the cup marked rock is a single cup. Good one tho.
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2 good cups and 3 smaller practise runs.
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Leave Airlie taking the minor road from the A926 and keep going until the Kirkton of Airlie. I parked at the church and headed east along track following the Airlie Burn. After passing the second house the track deteriorates to a muddy path but by this time the cairn can be seen to the north of the burn. Luckily there is a bridge to the field containing the cairn.
The cairn has been somewhat battered. It is a 28m by 22m rectangle and sits at 1.5 meters high. Plenty cairn material can be seen along with several large stones. Other stones that might have been part of cists also lay strewn about. Still the cairn survives and the locals certainly keep it alive with St Meddan’s memory.
With that it was back into the mud bath and a decent walk back to the church.
Visited 22/12/2014.
I parked at the Airlie village hall and walked back east along the A926 jumping the fence near the stone. The stone has been put back up, has had some field clearance/chokes removed and now has a nice fence surrounding it. Nice setting to restart with.
Visited 23/12/2014.
Massive ramparts north east side. In some parts I’d guess at 30 ft.
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West side of fort looking down on the poor car. No burst tyre tho :-)
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Sadly SC and myself found this stone ‘houked up’ and flung on a pile of farm waste. At least the stone is still there. The HS people were informed and hopefully something might be done.........hopefully!
What you find when making a car park.
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The best way to find this site is to park at the Braes Of Gight car park between Fyvie and Methlick on the B9005. Head south and quite literally batter thru the trees, the bhoy’s first faltering steps back were indeed faltering. Armed with our arms, and a grid ref machine (very handy as this site is almost impossible to find), we went on a mazy path south. Fortunately the site is in a clearing.
The hut circle is over 19 meters wide and is best preserved on the north east. Here the wall is 4 meters wide. Sadly the wall to the west has gone due to the forestation. However the front door, at the eastern side, survives and is over 2 meters wide. Some of the wall to the south also survives.
With that we battered thru the trees to east to find the main track. Heading south we walked past Gight Castle to rejoin the track following the banks of the River Ythan towards Methlick.
Visited 15/5/2014
The front door from the east.
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A wee bit of bank to the south of the front door.
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