Recumbent Stone Circles : 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.

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.