ryaner
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 09:34
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Really like this booklet, but what's the best book/gazetteer were one thinking of a week or 10 days visit?
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drewbhoy
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 09:55
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ryaner wrote: Really like this booklet, but what's the best book/gazetteer were one thinking of a week or 10 days visit?
Get in touch with me if you want and I'll give you sites which have quite a few round about them i.e. Rhynie (Corrtones etc), Insch (Dunnideer etc), Buchan RSCs. etc etc. If free I'll have a hike as well as well :-) Printing the maps from Canmore is quite a good idea.
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tiompan
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 10:19
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ryaner wrote: Really like this booklet, but what's the best book/gazetteer were one thinking of a week or 10 days visit?
Adam Welfare "Great Crowns of Stone " for RSC's .
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drewbhoy
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 10:31
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tiompan wrote: ryaner wrote: Really like this booklet, but what's the best book/gazetteer were one thinking of a week or 10 days visit?
Adam Welfare "Great Crowns of Stone " for RSC's .
A truly brilliant book!
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ryaner
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 11:47
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Thanks Drew and Tiompan. Haven't decided on the summer hols just yet, and this and other topics got me thinking - "car, Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Orkney etc." No decisions yet, but I like a good book to read afore I set out. Adam Welfare Great Crowns of Stone £125 on Amazon, worse on Alibris. Ho hum. Given that I've never really 'done' Cork, maybe that's a better option for the moment.
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drewbhoy
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 11:51
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ryaner wrote: Thanks Drew and Tiompan. Haven't decided on the summer hols just yet, and this and other topics got me thinking - "car, Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Orkney etc." No decisions yet, but I like a good book to read afore I set out. Adam Welfare Great Crowns of Stone £125 on Amazon, worse on Alibris. Ho hum. Given that I've never really 'done' Cork, maybe that's a better option for the moment.
You can borrow my one if you come up into The Shire.
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thelonious
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 13:05
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https://web.archive.org/web/20160305065303/http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/rcahms_media/files/publications/great_crowns_of_stone.pdf
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tiompan
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 13:06
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drewbhoy wrote: tiompan wrote: ryaner wrote: Really like this booklet, but what's the best book/gazetteer were one thinking of a week or 10 days visit?
Adam Welfare "Great Crowns of Stone " for RSC's .
A truly brilliant book!
I can't see how it could be surpassed .
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tjj
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 14:59
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carol27 wrote: We went last year & Aberdeenshire is stunning. We were struck by the lush green countryside & fields of golden crops; vast areas with hardly any one about in some places. The area surrounding Dunnideer is magical. The sea side was spectacular too. The RSCs are mighty, tucked away in lovely old woods; on tops of hills; nestled in plateaus..it was great.
Thanks Carol, you've just pushed Aberdeenshire to the top of my list for stone- bothering holiday after next. And Drew's enthusiasm of course, I know its his stamping ground.
Am going to Argyll this year to explore Kilmartin Glen (will have access to a small car).
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tjj
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Re: Recumbent Stone Circles of NE Scotland
Feb 17, 2017, 15:12
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ryaner wrote: Thanks Drew and Tiompan. Haven't decided on the summer hols just yet, and this and other topics got me thinking - "car, Scotland, Aberdeenshire, Orkney etc." No decisions yet, but I like a good book to read afore I set out. Adam Welfare Great Crowns of Stone £125 on Amazon, worse on Alibris. Ho hum. Given that I've never really 'done' Cork, maybe that's a better option for the moment.
West Cork, specifically the Beara Peninsula is fabulous. Stopped at Gaulstown Dolmen on the way down and Drombeg on the way back - plus all the amazing small stone circles on Beara and just over the border in Kerry. Have just remembered that Drombeg has a recumbent stone as well.
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