Recumbent Stone Circles : 8 Cothiemuir Wood

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 26 Page 345 (PDF)

Canmore reference number - 18055

Parking Spot - What3Words ///crank.arch.driven or digital coordinates 57.26799, -2.634306

Site location - What3Words ///untruth.property.tube or digital coordinates 57.267262, -2.636502

Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps

Distance from Parking Spot to site 210 meters

Terrain - Forest Path

Date first visited site 28th December 2021

This is an excellent circle with the recumbent and flanker's still standing along with four circle stones and one fallen circle stone. The recumbent is massive and can only be appreciated close up, it has a couple of shallow cup marks. Both flanker's are an impressive 2.7 meters tall, the west flanker (traditionally numbered No.1) is pointed and the east flanker (No.3) is very well dressed and almost perfectly square.

Click here for the - Cothiemuir Wood walk through

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.