35 Balquhain

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 9 Page 299 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18989
Parking Spot - What3Words ///joke.squeaking.tiny or digital coordinates 57.301544, -2.448716
Site location - What3Words ///floating.backlog.splashes or digital coordinates 57.306503, -2.441472
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 940m
Terrain - Farm Track and through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.
Date first visited site 10th April 2022

This is an excellent recumbent circle, the recumbent and one flanker are standing with the other flanker fallen. There are three circle stones standing and two / three fallen circle stones. There is massive standing stone in line with the recumbent but just outside the circle, its around three meters high and looks stunning as it looks like its white quartz (I am no Geologist). The land owner has generously left scrub land around the circle.

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34 Balnacraig

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 8 Page 297 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18024
Parking Spot - What3Words ///disposing.toads.transcribes or digital coordinates 57.125822, -2.648742
Site location - What3Words ///hurry.random.shudders or digital coordinates 57.121079, -2.656709
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 770m
Terrain - Farm Track and wooded area.
Date first visited site 10th April 2022

The walled area is beside a farm, the recumbent stands alone with two circle stones remaining only just upright. It looks like the other circle stones have been moved to the edge of the walled area. This recumbent circle is in a poor state with a number of circle stones fallen.






33 Tomnagorn

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 66 Page 470 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17999
Parking Spot - What3Words ///spelled.haggling.scrubber or digital coordinates 57.158810 -2.583010
Site location - What3Words ///gone.melts.priced or digital coordinates 57.159134 -2.577988
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 330m
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.
Date first visited site 10th April 2022

The recumbent and flanker's are up right although one of the flanker's has been broken and the top half is near by. Three of the circle stones are standing and six stones fallen with a partial inner circle of kerbstones and a central court. An excellent recumbent circle in a beautiful location.
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32 Druidstone

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 27 Page 350 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18213
Parking Spot - What3Words ///hinders.flattery.grinders or digital coordinates 57.291087, -2.647879
Site location - What3Words ///shepherds.calls.marsh or digital coordinates 57.288850, -2.639845
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 800m
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop.
Date first visited site 21st March 2022

There is a large stone over two meters high square cut with 1m by 1m sides, this looks like it stands just outside the original circle. It looks like the remains of the recumbent is directly across the circle. It looks like six fallen stones two of which are covered in moss and spiky bushes and there are four standing stones altogether.






31 Corrie Cairn

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 23 Page 338 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17683
Parking Spot - What3Words ///fastening.sang.cemented or digital coordinates 57.272194, -2.738049
Site location - What3Words ///baseballs.galloping.abundance or digital coordinates 57.273030, -2.744137
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 530m
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, a climb over a ladder gate, the walk is a long steady climb up the hill to the stone.
Date first visited site 21st March 2022

The large recumbent stone is part of the field wall and it looks like a flanker or circle stone is just a couple of meters along the wall. It looks like they both have been used as wall ends. Just up the hill from the stone the fence is low enough to straddle easily and gain access to the face of the stone.






30 North Strone

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 50 Page 419 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17588
Parking Spot - What3Words ///decreased.duration.equipping or digital coordinates 57.218400, -2.681444
Site location - What3Words ///earpiece.earl.poet or digital coordinates 57.213899, -2.689618
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 1Km
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, a climb over two ladder gates, second half of the walk has a long steady climb up the hill to the stones, can be very boggy at the bottom of this hill.
Date first visited site 21st March 2022 

One flanker is standing, the small recumbent stone and the other flanker have fallen, two circle stones standing, the other 12 fallen, with three or four stumps just outside the circle. Canmore suggest a few of the stones have been re-erected and the circle is suspiciously perfect. While climbing and descending the hill I noticed loads of groups of stones that seemed to be other circle stones.






29 Auld Kirk o Tough

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 52 Page 428 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18006
Parking Spot - What3Words ///lottery.tweeted.transmits or digital coordinates 57.168243, -2.617608
Site location - What3Words ///headlines.elastic.justifies or digital coordinates 57.172636, -2.621640
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 710m
Terrain - Along a farm track then through a field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, there is a climb over a couple of ladder gates.
Date first visited site 21st March 2022

It looks like the recumbent stone and a flanker stone are now part of the field wall and a single standing circle stone is directly across from the recumbent. The field wall running down hill looks like it contains most of the circle stones.






28 Wantonwells

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 69 Page 483 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18139
Parking Spot - What3Words ///brink.newsprint.zoos or digital coordinates 57.334991, -2.631728
Site location - What3Words ///eyeliner.plotted.juggle or digital coordinates 57.334640, -2.634929
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 240m
Terrain - A short walk along a quite road the through a field, avoid damage to crop.
Date first visited site 19th March 2022

The recumbent stone still stands and the one remaining flanker has fallen. Lots of broken stones at the rear of the recumbent, looks like the remains of the other flanker and circle stones have been pushed and stacked here.






27 Hatton Of Ardoyne

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 34 Page 370 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18125
Parking Spot - What3Words ///defend.remotest.myths or digital coordinates 57.334533, -2.573855
Site location - What3Words ///marsh.scrap.yours or digital coordinates 57.330032, -2.566572
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 900m
Terrain - Through a few field's, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, there is a climb over a number of ladder gates.
Date first visited site 19th March 2022

The stones are fenced with barbed wire and there is a gate which is covered with a few large spiky bushes which took a bit to get through. The recumbent, one flanker and six circle stones still standing. Two of the circle stones have been pushed up to the flanker and I found six fallen circle stones or parts of them so there maybe as many as ten or twelve circle stones all together. One of the circle stones has a T bar carved into it with what looks like two iron fixing studs drilled into the stone.







26 New Craig

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 48 Page 410 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18811
Parking Spot - What3Words ///buyers.refer.delays or digital coordinates 57.358438, -2.427646
Access point, insulated section of electric fence - What3Words ///shifters.crashing.reinstate or digital coordinates 57.356983, -2.424445
Site location - What3Words ///nags.issued.mass or digital coordinates 57.356714, -2.424445
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 380m
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop, electric fence, cross at insulated section.
Date first visited site 19th March 2022

This is a walled area with handy inbuilt access steps to the left and right of the recumbent stone. The adjacent field also has an electric fence, I did a duck and roll under this fence to get a good picture of the face of the recumbent which is split. There's one standing circle stone and a few other fallen with another large recumbent stone a few meters away.

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25 Old Rayne

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 53 Page 432 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18081
Parking Spot - What3Words ///direction.hiring.snippets or digital coordinates 57.341378, -2.534689
Site location - What3Words ///tasks.opponent.loses or digital coordinates 57.341244, -2.533538
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 100m
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop.
Date first visited site 19th March 2022

There is only one circle stone standing, three others fallen along with the fallen flankers and recumbent, one flanker has split about halfway up. The recumbent has cup marks. The considerate farmer has left generous scrub land around this site.

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24 Candle hill

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 18 Page 322 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17615
Parking Spot - What3Words ///stormy.shampoos.window or digital coordinates 57.358115, -2.672644
Gate to the site - What3Words ///balance.focal.commit or digital coordinates 57.357980, -2.668192
Site location - What3Words ///upcoming.parsnips.building or digital coordinates 57.358385, -2.667892
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 460m
Terrain - Through a field, avoid damage to crop.
Date first visited site 7th March 2022

One circle stone is still standing, four other circle stones have fallen, the recumbent and both flanker's are also fallen. Three of the fallen circle stones are almost completely covered in moss and grass.






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