Recumbent Stone Circles : 53 Mains of Hatton

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 42 Page 395 (PDF)

Canmore reference number - 18357

Parking Spot - What3Words ///implanted.snapper.imprints or digital coordinates 57.472065, -2.506242

Site location - What3Words ///token.punctuate.readers or digital coordinates 57.472065, -2.503033

Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps

Distance from Parking Spot to site 60m

Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.

Date first visited site 21st May 2022

Difficult to tell from the jumble of stones, looks like the larger stones have been broken and have all been pushed together, but there is what seems to be a reduced recumbent stone with the both flanker's fallen and also reduced / broken, with six circle stones all fallen around the circumference of the scrub land.

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.