26/06/2023 – Rounds Of Tivla. Main Cairn. A small mound of stones in the middle surrounded by three circular low stone banks with two intermediate ditches.
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26/06/2023 – Rounds Of Tivla. Main Cairn. A small mound of stones in the middle surrounded by three circular low stone banks with two intermediate ditches.
26/06/2023 – Rounds Of Tivla. Small cairn to the west of the two main cairns
26/06/2023 – The larger Crussa Field Cairn A, with Cairn B just beyond to the left. The Rounds of Tivla cairns are to the right over the fence.
26/06/2023 – Lund stone. Hard to get the scale from the photo, it’s big!
25/06/2023 – Hill of Burravoe heel-shaped cairn ‘A’. Possible remains of chamber. Cairn ‘B’ beyond.
25/06/2023 – Hill of Burravoe heel-shaped cairn ‘A’. It’s a big cairn. Looking along the facade which Canmore has as 20.5m long! It’s not easy to make out too much of what’s going on.
25/06/2023 – Hill of Burravoe heel-shaped cairn ‘A’. Looking up a possible passage to chamber.
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House D (HU 3351 6739)
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House D (HU 3351 6739). Chambered cairn is just beyond on the heather knoll.
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House C (HU 3355 6744)
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House C (HU 3355 6744)
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House B (HU 3339 6753). House A is beyond.
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – Internal passage in House B (HU 3339 6753)
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – Entrance to House B (HU 3339 6753)
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House A (HU 3329 6759)
Culsetter Neolithic settlement – House A (HU 3329 6759)
24/06/2023 – The slightly concave front of Bays Water Chambered Cairn. Neolithic settlement just beyond.
24/06/2023 – Skeo Of Gossaford Cairn and it’s lovely setting looking across to the sea and Brae beyond.
24/06/2023 – Skeo Of Gossaford Cairn, low but big diameter, lots of stones.
24/06/2023 – A day of tops and stones from Brae to Muckle Roe and back. We passed by The Busta Stone west of Brae, it’s a 10ft lump! A nice way to start the walk.
23/06/2023 – Beorgs Of Uyea Chambered Cairn. A narrow passage leading to a chamber (far end of photo) survives. Unusual location on the hillside. The views are fantastic. A connection to the nearby quarry?
23/06/2023 – View down passage to chamber of Beorgs Of Uyea Chambered Cairn.
23/06/2023 – Looking over Beorgs Of Uyea Chambered Cairn to the landscape beyond. The cairn is hard to see until you are next to it.
23/06/2023 – The chamber and passage beyond of Beorgs Of Uyea Chambered Cairn
23/06/2023 – Gallery covered by lintel stones that could have been a workshop next to a Felsite dyke.
23/06/2023 – View across the quarry to the sea beyond. Just a wonderful location and a lovely place to be on a sunny day.
23/06/2023 – Quarried broken stones of a Felsite dyke. It covers a large area on the hillside.
23/06/2023 – Broken stones of a Felsite dyke at the Neolithic axe factory. Grey stones of Felsite surrounded by pink stones of Ronas Hill Granite.
Canmore mentions an area of over 60 small standing stones just SE of the quarrying. I didn’t know what to make of it. Some looked naturally occurring, some placed. I could maybe make out lines formed.