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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;

Glassel Stones Scotland VR0271JHP Glassel Stone Circle Setting Aberdeenshire Scotland Spiritual Photo Forest Canny Burn or stream opposite to the entrance to Glassel ouse on the Banchory to Torphins backroad. Accessed through commercial forest it requires some walking through rough ground and this is how they appear after recent clear felling adjacent to the site. They were reckoned to be an early transitional phase after recumbent stone circles with possible evidence of a cist burial lid lying in the centre foreground; it was excavated in 1904. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Banchory, Campfield, Canny, Burn, ridge, Torphins, Glassel, Stone, Setting, Circle, oval, granite, pillars, landscape, history, Bronze, Age, ancient, archaeology, excavation, flint, charcoal, cist, sandstone, lid, ancestors, neolithic, monument, stones, monoliths, sockets, uprights, sacrifice, cremation, burial, cult, quartz, granite, tribe, antiquity, leader, generation, death, ceremony, construction, primitive, community, field, territorial, marker, clearances, ritual, rural, nature, astronomical, seasons, moon, sunset, sunrise, cyclical, cycles, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, peaceful, quiet, sun, sunshine, grass, green, blue, white, farming, agriculture, countryside, wild, spring.
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
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Glassel Stones Scotland VR0271JHP
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Glassel Stone Circle Setting Aberdeenshire Scotland Spiritual Photo Forest Canny

Burn or stream opposite to the entrance to Glassel ouse on the Banchory to Torphins backroad. Accessed through commercial forest it requires some walking through rough ground and this is how they appear after recent clear felling adjacent to the site. They were reckoned to be an early transitional phase after recumbent stone circles with possible evidence of a cist burial lid lying in the centre foreground; it was excavated in 1904.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal, Deeside, Banchory, Campfield, Canny, Burn, ridge, Torphins, Glassel, Stone, Setting, Circle, oval, granite, pillars, landscape, history, Bronze, Age, ancient, archaeology, excavation, flint, charcoal, cist, sandstone, lid, ancestors, neolithic, monument, stones, monoliths, sockets, uprights, sacrifice, cremation, burial, cult, quartz, granite, tribe, antiquity, leader, generation, death, ceremony, construction, primitive, community, field, territorial, marker, clearances, ritual, rural, nature, astronomical, seasons, moon, sunset, sunrise, cyclical, cycles, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, peaceful, quiet, sun, sunshine, grass, green, blue, white, farming, agriculture, countryside, wild, spring.