Recumbent Stone Circles : 17 Balgorkar Castle Fraser

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 19 Page 325 (PDF)

Canmore reference number - 18719

Parking Spot - What3Words ///postings.crowds.football or digital coordinates 57.205059 -2.470604

Site location - What3Words ///suave.roving.latches or digital coordinates 57.202606 -2.473392

Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps

Distance from Parking Spot to site 400m

Terrain - Through fields, avoid damage to crop, use tractor tracks.

Date first visited site 24th February 2022

The farmer has been considerate and left a generous scrub area around the stones. Four of the circle stones still standing and a couple fallen over. Good example of recumbent circle. There are two good size standing stones in the same field.

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Disclaimer

Common Sense, Courtesy, Generally Accepted Good Practice, The Highway Code, The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, Dynamic Self-risk Assessment, Aberdeenshire weather conditions and my own physical limitations were all taken into account when visiting these sites, assessing the parking spots, the routes and the site access. By using any of the information, parking spots, routes and site access mentioned in this blog, you take full responsibility and accountability for your own behaviour, actions and the subsequent consequences.