Lower Camster

Nearest town:
Wick (11km ENE)
OS reference:
ND260458
OS sheets:
11, 12
Latitude:
58° 23' 40.18 N
Longitude:
3° 15' 57.75 W
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Image of Lower Camster (Stone Row / Alignment) by markj99

Lower Camster W Standing Stone viewed from NE.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
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Image of Lower Camster (Stone Row / Alignment) by markj99

Lower Camster N Standing Stone viewed from S.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
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Image of Lower Camster (Stone Row / Alignment) by markj99

Lower Camster S Standing Stone viewed from SSW. (25.06.14)

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
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Image of Lower Camster (Stone Row / Alignment) by tumulus

You can see two of the stones here, not five. The three white blobs in the distance are sheep!

Image credit: Martin McCarthy
tumulus
tumulus Oct 14, 2004

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Lower Camster

C
CARL Aug 20, 2014

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’.

Lower Camster

tumulus
tumulus Oct 14, 2004

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!

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