Recumbent Stone Circles : 45 Cairnton

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 17 Page 321 (PDF)

Canmore reference number - 17855

Parking Spot - What3Words ///pizza.professed.chatters or digital coordinates 57.486241 -2.685946

Site location - What3Words ///mows.home.soldiers or digital coordinates 57.490365 -2.692514

Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps

Distance from Parking Spot to site 690m

Terrain - Road, Farm Track and through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.

Date first visited site 2nd May 2022

The large recumbent stone and one tall flanker still standing and behind both of these is a very large pile of medium and small stones that maybe broken up remains of the fallen flanker and all the circle stones or could be stones unearthed and gathered up over the years of ploughing.

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.