thesweetcheat
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 15, 2018, 17:51
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drewbhoy wrote: I'd heard rumours but nothing concrete
I should hope not, granite at the very least.
Seriously though, how has this escaped everyone's notice before!?
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drewbhoy
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 15, 2018, 17:59
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thesweetcheat wrote: drewbhoy wrote: I'd heard rumours but nothing concrete
I should hope not, granite at the very least.
Seriously though, how has this escaped everyone's notice before!?
I think a lot of people thought it was an enclosure and never really looked. It is also reasonably well surrounded in the jabby stuff which appears to be in retreat.
It took them a long time to decide about Hillside.
Rumours about something Cushnie so more could be on the way. They missed Pittenderrich and Gealaig which are huge nearby cairns as well.
Les and myself walked right pass this when coming down from Pittenderrich and Pressendye a couple of years back.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 15, 2018, 18:01
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Marvellous stuff, I've just been looking at Bruce's posts for it on Twitter.
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drewbhoy
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 15, 2018, 18:16
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thesweetcheat wrote: Marvellous stuff, I've just been looking at Bruce's posts for it on Twitter.
Best bit, my pal Bruce can't drive and he has Angus and Moray to control as well :-)
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 15, 2018, 18:18
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drewbhoy wrote: thesweetcheat wrote: Marvellous stuff, I've just been looking at Bruce's posts for it on Twitter.
Best bit, my pal Bruce can't drive and he has Angus and Moray to control as well :-)
Haha, there's hope for us non-drivers yet :)
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Howburn Digger
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 16, 2018, 20:07
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thesweetcheat wrote:
Seriously though, how has this escaped everyone's notice before!?
The Ordnance Survey has marked it as a physical feature. It is marked by a black circle-ish shape in the field. Not identified as a "Stone Circle" though.
https://binged.it/2LkJesN
That black circle feature has appeared on the OS post-1967. The patch of rough ground where the circle lies (within the improved field) is shown as a seperate enclosed marshy area on the OS 25 Inch 1897-1914 sheet.
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/index.cfm#zoom=17&lat=57.1654&lon=-2.7983&layers=168&b=1&r=24
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Newly identified recumbent stone circle
Dec 16, 2018, 21:16
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Howburn Digger wrote:
The fact that it only appeared post-1967 suggests that it may have been picked up from aerial photos rather than fieldwork surveying. As you said earlier in the thread, quite possibly when the OS actual went there to survey for the County Series 25" it may have been hidden in a peat bog.
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drewbhoy
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Re: nope
Jan 22, 2019, 00:23
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nigelswift wrote: FFFFFFFIZIIZZZZZzzz z z
(That's the sound of the ley lines powering down).
What do you mean by that?
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nigelswift
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Re: nope
Jan 22, 2019, 09:55
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Well, in the words of one dowser: I just read the article in the newspaper and dowsed again the picture included, and it has both radial and concentric forces within the stone circle"....
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drewbhoy
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Re: nope
Jan 22, 2019, 11:32
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nigelswift wrote: Well, in the words of one dowser: I just read the article in the newspaper and dowsed again the picture included, and it has both radial and concentric forces within the stone circle"....
I'll remove the site from here.
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