Chris

Visited July 02

A lovely day which unfortunately brought out the tourists, lounging all over the stones like they were placed there for sunbathing.

Walked to Gib Hill to find Mr & Mrs Barbour-Jacket (Retd.) terroritorialy camped on top-would they like someone
pic-nicing on their hopefully soon to be occupied graves?

A site to visit in winter, preferably during a howling gale!

I found this in the grounds of the Murray Royal Hospital in Perth.
No-one knows its history, but it has a look of age about it, and its been there as long as anyone can remember.

You can find it at the low end of the Hospital, in front of the ‘new’ wards.

Back again. I’d flown to Aberdeen for work for the day, finished early and there was only one place to go. I’ve never been so smartly dressed when marching halfway up a hill.

The visionarys at Historic Scotland have now renamed this site ‘Standingstones Stone Circle’ probably on the account of the nearby wood being called Standingstones Wood. So named, I would have said for the pair of standing stones in it on the other side of the hill....oh well.

I spent an hour up here as it got dark, and all though the noise was incessant, tractors, aircraft and those bloody helicopters it doesn’t matter. Walk slowly around the stones, and look at each one-think of the thousands of years they’ve stood, and the sights they’ve seen. The ‘modern’ world is only transient, and in a place like this irrelevant.

Get up here as soon as you can-you won’t regret it.

PS The airport has a wide range of standing stones on islands and petrol stations etc-anybody know if they have any history, or are they merely megalithic Ground Force jobbies?

Wow, this place is huge!
First visit yesterday, with only 20 mins daylight left, and we’ll definitely return. Theres loads to take in, and you could definitely spend a day here.
The stones are very green (lichen), and although fallen, most stones are still in place, which really helps to visualise the site as it was.
One of Englands top sites, and as it says below-nobody comes!

19/1/02
Avebury again. Took our 7 week old twin boys for the first time outside of mums belly. Suitably disinterested! (They’d better get used to being dragged round these sites in all weathers!)

Maybe its the weather, but Avebury can seem quite sad at times-the destruction, and the intrusion of the village/public bogs/chapel etc.
Roll on the summer....

Second time we’ve visited, and if anything the rain was even heavier. A fantastic megalith which the christian dickheads have done their best to conceal and subdue – no chance. It’s another site where you wonder what else was there-the small stone in the corner, aligned on the road, the circular aspect to parts of the churchyard-who knows? (Send for Time Team, I don’t think).

Another site afflicted by modern intrusions, yet still rising above them so that you don’t really notice. The scale of this site is immense, its easy to see why a fourth monolith nay have been present, indeed you wonder what else may have been there.

A spectacular site which should not be missed.