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One of only two standing stones on the north terraces above Loch Tay. Judging by the amount of rockart and quality soil the area must have been well populated from at least the Late Neolithic. The stone is aligned 30 degrees and would have pointed to the summer major lunar standstill on the slopes of East Mealour. There is a cup marked rock, due east in the same field.
Some marked rocks found a couple of years ago on the hill opposite Clach a Mhoid
A couple of newly discovered marked rocks , missed by the royal commission survey of 2000 .The hills in the background are part of the Ben lawers range .
A fine setting , view is of Carn Liath .The cairn was found to contain the two side slabs of a cist .
A new marked rock found today .
A couple of standing stones 500 metres to the north of the stone circle , there is another at Tops Demesne a wee bit further north west .
Not quite in the Auchenlaich league for being long , you’ll get six of Bracklin Burn into Auchenlaich and still have room for another chamber , but at 53.5 m still quite impressive.It’s aligned WNWN-ESE and tapers from 14.8 m, at the eastern end to 8.5m at the west .
Two more stones found today at Glascorrie one under turf and the other under a pile of field clearance .
Apologies for such a dull pic but this field , close to an esker on the River Earn was the site of a Class 1 henge 19m in diameter a Class 2 Henge 44 m in diameter and another possible henge 22m in diameter .
One of the most important Neolithic sites in southern Scotland . Occupying 16 acres of an upland natural amphitheatre there is not a lot to see and the dull pics don’t help much either . It is possible to access the site from the road to the nearby quarry but be careful where, you park , lorries use it constantly .
When originally discovered this motif appeared to have five rings curtailed by the edge of the rock ,see themodernantiquarian.com/post/53565 ,
quite a common feature in rock art . However ,when the the area surrounding them was cleaned up a bit and with better lighting the ” rings ” turned out to be two sets of arcs giving the impression of rings . While there are lots of examples of rings being cut off at a fissure or or change in slope or texture I don’t know of any that have it on two sides .
