moey
Is it just me, or does this rockfrom the main site look like a homage to Easter Island (Or Possibly Homer Simpson)
You gotta go – they are in a fantastic setting.
Very Busy site though, coach loads of bloody tourists.
Watch out for the americans, wanted to wreak vengance on the ones who took their shoes off to walk on the top of the cairns – idiots
Martian indeed. Pic Aug 2001
The first time we went, our road atlas was wrong and we thought we had missed them. We were just about to do a U turn on the singler track road, when – WOW!
Went back this year and I must be a lot fatter, cos it was a struggle getting in.
Mick captures me at the Rollrights before my waist exploded
Image credit: Mickstonecirclesandu
Jan2000CE Eastern Scottish Borders
On a day of intermittent Snow, hail and Sun, I decided to head off to find this small site.
Narrow roads lead to where you will have to leave your car.
Bizarrely, you have to follow a rutted track of the old roman road called Dere Street for about a mile and a half to reach it. Being in the Cheviot hills, the roman soldiers didn’t have it easy, yeah, the road was straight, but up and down, upand down.
The site is windswept with fantastic views. The air was crisp and I left invigorated, back to the car before early nightfall and heavier snowfall.
On my lonesome on a weekend in the Western Lowlands, I found myself here chatting to the guy in the pic. He talked about how his life was full of multiple coincidences.
Just the previous evening I had phoned my mother from Newton Stewart (Tourhousekie) not having had a destination for the weekend I ended up somewhere I had never been before. She told me it was her wedding anniversary. Thirty Three years ago that very day she had spent her Honeymoon....... In Newton Stewart
Sun Beating Down – I Hung out here alone for about an hour. Left feeling at peace
Woooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaahhh.
What a fantastic circle
Image credit: joolio geordio
Still My Favourite Site.
The Neolithic Property Developers, hit Gold here – Location! Location! Location!
The Five Gnarled Brothers Stand Beneath the Old Cheviot – Blissful.
I used to play golf up on this windy hill as a kid, I remember seeing the markings, but didn’t make the connection until a couple of years ago.
One of my favourite views looking over the Milfield Plain and too the Cheviots
We got here in bright sunshine, spent some time looking around and then returned to the car. Without warning there was the fiercest rainstorm you can imagine. With great force it came down. But the gods were with us – we had made it back just in time.
Due to the increased number of visitors, the Chestnuts are now only available to visit by appointment.
Price £1 (under 16’s free)
Contact: Joan Bygrave, Rose Alba, Park Road, Addington, West Malling, Kent, ME19 5BQ
Phone: 01732 840220
Please don’t think you can sneak in, they’re in her back garden.
Thanks to Jane for the update on the Phone No.
Under a brooding sky, rain moved off and left us at stennes with brilliant sunshine.
In Awe.
Sept 2000
I cannot describe my excitement at seeing Sundown at Stennes. I have been to stacks of sites, many I want to re-visit, but none so much as this place.
Less than 24 hours later, I would drop my digital camera and spend the rest of the week unable to capture the fantastic sights and sites of the Orkneys.
A truely wondrous place
This is one of my “local” sites. a place of peace hidden in the wood. It is Weathering fast – I hope this pic does it justice
John
If you look up from the Hurlers, towering in the near distance, you will see the hill that houses The Cheesewring. Spectacular is not the word. Precarious is the feeling, Each of the stone stacks feels as if it could topple at any time.
More Beautiful than any man could create.
To find that this still exists right in the middle of town is pretty remarkable. Me and Mick spent a sunny September hour in the late afternoon, watching the locals go by.
Great Open air vanue :-)
The start of a long, hot, sunburning trek of a day. Sitting with the sheepinthe Hellstone.
The fiftysomethings never even ventured over the brow of the hill to visit the Longstone – missed out.
We arrived at the same time as a herd of fiftysomethings on a tour. so we sat around until they cleared off.
Interesting to think what the Y avenues were for. A convergence of paths for marraige perhaps?
How Sad Are We? But it had to be done! Sundown was fast approaching and the mood was right. Realise now we were totally wrong with the setup, but what the hell – it kept us out of mischief
The Sonic Chronicler & Mickstonecirclesandu
Blink and you’ve missed it. Lying low by the side of the road, Tregiffian lies in wait for the slower paced traveller. This is well worth a look, close by the merry Maidens – the hollowed stone is worthy of inspection
Our dogy map reading took us straight to this place for a change – fantastic views
A hellish long trek, but, wow – fantastic, hope the pic does it justice
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