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The gallery has photos of ancient Scottish sites such as recumbent stone circles, stone circles, long cairns, Pictish carvings and early fortifications including Tap ONoth, Bennachie, Kinord, and most of the following:
Aikey Brae RSC; Balquhain Stone Circle; Brandsbutt Stone; Broomend of Crichie Henge and Pictish Symbol Stone; Castle Fraser Stone Circle; Consumption Dykes, Kingswells; Corsedarder Memorial; Cothiemuir Wood RSC; Craigearn Standing Stone; Craw Stane, Rhynie; Cullerlie Stone Circle; Culsh earthhouse or souterrain; Easter Aquthorthies RSC; Eslie the Greater RSC; Eslie the Lessler RSC; Garrol Wood RSC; Glassel Stone Circle; Kinord Cross; Kirkton of Bourtie RSC; Loanhead of Daviot RSC; Long Cairn, Corsedarder; Maidenstone Symbol Stone; Mid Mar Stone Circle; Nine Staines RSC; Picardy Pictish Symbol Stone; Strichen RSC; Sueno Stone, Forres; Sunhoney RSC; Tomnaverie RSC;

Cothiemuir RSC bnm3612jhp Scotland summer Cothiemuir woods Stone Circle Keig Donside Aberdeenshire and now the focus for a nearby natural burial site with a spiritual connection going back to Bronze Age times. This ancient Recumbent Stone Circle with altar stone, flankers and some outer monoliths is found deep in the forest off the Keig to Monymusk Road via My Lord’s Throat which runs along the southern side of Bennachie. After leaving the main Insch Road [B992] there is a straight followed by a curve to the right round the edge of Cothiemuir Wood. Adjacent to a field looking back to Keig there is enough room to pull off the road on the verge, cross the road and there is an obvious footpath up through the many mature trees and up a gradual slope. The walk into the stone circle takes about five minutes following the footpath which meanders through the trees and past some of the Natural Burial area plots. This is a Historic Scotland protected site, it is not signed and there is no access for wheelchairs. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Donside, Cothiemuir, Insch, Inverurie, Keig, Recumbent, Stone, Circle, landscape, history, Bronze, Age, ancient, archaeology, ancestors, neolithic, stones, altar, flankers, monoliths, monolith, quartz, granite, generation, death, ceremony, construction, forest, summer, 2016, June, summer, digital, photograph, camera, Nikon, D700, DSLR
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Ancient Stones
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Cothiemuir RSC bnm3612jhp
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Scotland summer Cothiemuir woods Stone Circle Keig Donside Aberdeenshire and

now the focus for a nearby natural burial site with a spiritual connection going back to Bronze Age times. This ancient Recumbent Stone Circle with altar stone, flankers and some outer monoliths is found deep in the forest off the Keig to Monymusk Road via My Lord’s Throat which runs along the southern side of Bennachie. After leaving the main Insch Road [B992] there is a straight followed by a curve to the right round the edge of Cothiemuir Wood. Adjacent to a field looking back to Keig there is enough room to pull off the road on the verge, cross the road and there is an obvious footpath up through the many mature trees and up a gradual slope. The walk into the stone circle takes about five minutes following the footpath which meanders through the trees and past some of the Natural Burial area plots. This is a Historic Scotland protected site, it is not signed and there is no access for wheelchairs.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Donside, Cothiemuir, Insch, Inverurie, Keig, Recumbent, Stone, Circle, landscape, history, Bronze, Age, ancient, archaeology, ancestors, neolithic, stones, altar, flankers, monoliths, monolith, quartz, granite, generation, death, ceremony, construction, forest, summer, 2016, June, summer, digital, photograph, camera, Nikon, D700, DSLR