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Example of the vitrification remnants of the fort's walling, and scale altitude wise above the village of Insch below. (University driver there for colour-interest) ;-)
Image credit: Dunideer Hill-Fort Walling
The hill-fort on top of Dunideer near Insch is well worth the sweat & potential tears ascending it. The biggest warning I would give to any going there is watch yer feet for rabbit holes. Once at the top the views are stunning around the site, not to mention the medieval remains. As well as portions of vitrified walling stretching back to the Iron-Age.
Photos and a couple of videos of my visit to Dunideer at the following url:
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One of the Pictish carved stones at Rhynie,at the car part nr the kirkyard.
Image credit: Pictish carved stone in the 'bus shelter-like' shak
Believed to be the remaining stone from a RSC.
'Classification amended from stone circle to recumbent stone circle.
Information from RCAHMS (ATW) 20 January 2009'
Source: Canmore
Image credit: Gaval standing stone,Sept 2008.
The Ring of Bookan is easily missed, or at least I found it so when I visited the site in late July 2009, though I will blame the long grass of course. It's an important though probably over passed site unless one knows it's there (minus the long grass).
The Bookan henge lacks two features common to Brodgar and Stenness – an entrance causeway and outer bank. These, however, could easily have fallen victim to ploughing and farming over the centuries.
Within the ditch are a number of stones and a rough mound. It has been suggested that this is the remains of a cairn, but this remains speculation
Latter info source: Orkneyjar/Ring of Bookan.
My videos & photosgraphs at:
Around 140 metres to the south-east of the Ring o' Brodgar is the monolith known as the Comet Stone.
Standing 1.75 metres high (5ft 9in), the Comet Stone stands on a low oval platform measuring around 14 metres (45ft) in diameter and about 80cm (31.5 inches).
The monolith appears to have once been part of a group of stones, the only evidence of which are the stumps of two broken stones.
Info source:http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/monoliths/cometstone.htm
Image credit: The Comet Stane , July 2009
Weather on Orkney is fickle, yes that's the word. This video taken in April 2010 during a field trip to the Brodgar henge was a precursor for a dash back to the bus.
Approach to the Stones of Stenness during a field trip to Orkney in April 2010, it was BALTIC!!!, that said Stenness, & Brodgar almost made it worthwhile. Imuch prefer these sites in the warmth though like I did months later.
Short video of the Cove whilst visiting the locality in 2009.
Interior video of the Unstan Cairn taken on my last day on Orkney mid August 2009 which up for the Ness of Brodgar dig & related sundries.
This was a grand day's culmination walk from the main road to Stenness,Barnhouse, N.o.B., Brodgar to the Ring of Bookan, then back & out to Unstan.
Getting along the passage-way's the worst part,but that's what yer knees are for.
Image credit: Unstan Entrance
Not very good vid (probably taken on my mob) of the RSC at Berrybrae north of Crimond in Aberdeenshire.
Photo of the Stone of Quoybune,with the Birsay Outdoor Centre & Loch Boardhouse to the right of it.
Image credit: Stane o Quoybune, nr Loch Boardhouse,Orkney
Exit doorway of the broch at Aikerness on Orkney, nice views of Rousay, the 'Egypt of the North'.
Image credit: Aikerness Broch, Orkney
We visited this broch during a 4 day 'field trip' in April, it was baltic!.
Wee talk by a uni chum on her interpretation of the stone in question.
Short video of the Recumbent Stone Circle at Aikey Brae, located at Parkhouse Hill just south-west of Old Deer.
An example of a RSC or recumbent stone circle which the north-east of Scotland is populated with. Comprising of grey granite of local origin. All of the stones except the recumbent and flankers were torn down by a farmer in 1830. The stones were re-erected eventually. Excavationed by A Burl in 1979 revealed that the circle was immediately to the N although the recumbent and its flankers were in their original location. After excavation the stones were replaced in their original positions and the circle reconstructed to the status one sees today.
The biggest issue I see with the site is a safety related one, ok there is a secure fence with high tension wire surrounding it to a degree, however there's a mediocre low fence between the visitor & some bulls that populated the field next to the circle the month I was there which seems rather nonsensical.
3 image 'stitch' of the main recumbent circle at Loanhead of Daviot encompassing the central funerary cairn.
Image credit: Loanhead of Daviot 'stitch'