|
 Log in |
Register
|
|
|
Lower CamsterStone Row / Alignment
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
0 discussions
Show map (inline Google Map)
|
|
|
Images (click to view fullsize) |
 Add an image |
|
Fieldnotes |
Add fieldnotes |
|
Visited 24.7.14 Directions: About 1 mile further north of the famous Grey Cairns of Camster. Just keep heading up the road and you will see the standing stones on your right. My O/S map shows three standing stones but I could only spot 2 of them amid the tall spiky grass – both of which are visible from the road although not obvious. The adjacent wind turbines dominate the area. Whilst searching around for the ‘missing’ stone I was constantly surrounded by a mass of flies. Perhaps they were after the salt in my sweat on this hot, sticky day. Or perhaps I just smelt! I was planning on having a look at the nearby broch but unfortunately ran out of time. CANMORE state: ‘Three small stone slabs stand in heather moorland immediately E of the minor road from Watten to Lybster. The southernmost stands immediately E of the road and measures 0.8m in height by 0.22m in thickness – there is an O/S bench-mark on its SSE face. The second stone, which also stands immediately E of the road, measures 0.5m in height and 0.4m in thickness. The northernmost stone measures 0.8m in height by 0.25m in thickness’. |
Posted by CARL 20th August 2014ce |
|
Three fairly small stones - CANMORE thinks one of them might just be a random boulder rather than part of a setting with the two definite megaliths. The stones are near the road and in a very empty bit of flat moor, but they're low enough to be easily missed when the heather is thick. "Small stones in flat featureless moor" sounds pretty dull, but it's a lovely site! |
Posted by tumulus14th October 2004ce |
Links |
Add a link |
Ancient Scotland |
Posted by tumulus 14th October 2004ce |
Top of page