73 Tombeg

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - Not mentioned
Canmore reference number - 18064
Parking Spot - What3Words ///comment.inherits.elite or digital coordinates 57.218427, -2.533518
Site location - What3Words ///array.doll.changed or digital coordinates 57.217995, -2.532820
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 80m
Terrain - Through woodland and over small stone dyke.
Date first visited site 6th August 2022

The one remaining standing stone looks like it maybe a circle stone that has a 1" drill hole near the base on the inner face. Around 6 ~ 8 meters infront of this stone is a massive well dressed stone almost fully buried and is only visible by the drop off in ground level, shape and size would suggest that this could be the recumbent stone






72 Nether Coullie

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - Appendix 1 - 65 Page 533 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18657
Parking Spot - What3Words ///flattered.camera.splice or digital coordinates 57.229746, -2.478095
Site location - What3Words ///things.variation.backup or digital coordinates 57.230636, -2.482332
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 440m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, over a ladder gate.
Date first visited site 6th August 2022

On the way to the stone I met the very friendly farmer who recalled his father telling him about how they used small amounts of explosive / gunpowder to split the stones apart, the remains of the broken stones can be seen on the farm track and along the far side of the field.
The stone is a 2.7 meter flat triangular shape and is fallen, it is thought that this was one of the flanker's.






71 Gray Stone

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 33 Page 368 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 19227
Parking Spot - What3Words ///cactus.cheerily.snowboard or digital coordinates 57.617683, -2.342265
Site location - What3Words ///parkland.spine.submerged or digital coordinates 57.617305, -2.341662
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 70m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, over a ladder gate.
Date first visited site 27th July 2022

The massive recumbent stone is all that remains of this circle. Referencing drawings and information from  Great Crowns of Stone, the impressive recumbent stone has fallen back and is supported at one end by a few smaller stones.

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70 St Brandan's Stanes

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 58 Page 447 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18495
Parking Spot - What3Words ///magpie.wrist.develop or digital coordinates 57.637465, -2.653391
Site location - What3Words ///hologram.modules.suspended or digital coordinates 57.637761, -2.659084
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 420m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.
Date first visited site 27th July 2022

The two very large stones that remain standing are most likely to be the flankers. The recumbent has either been removed or broken up. There are a number of medium stones inbetween and around the two flankers which maybe the circle stones or cairn kerbstones having been pushed together. One of these stones that rest's against the right hand flanker has a number of cup mark's






69 Bankhead (Ghost Site)

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 10 Page 303 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17663
Parking Spot - What3Words ///screening.siesta.rewriting or digital coordinates 57.327391 -2.775654
Site location - What3Words ///half.sigh.detective or digital coordinates 57.329169, -2.777403
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 250m
Terrain - Along farm track.
Date first visited site 16th July 2022

I did knock at the farm house a couple of times to make my presence known but there was no answer. I looked around the stones and took some pictures when an older gentleman, who was one of the family that manage the farm, approached me and so I explained myself. He was very friendly and we got talking about the large well dressed recumbent, I mentioned that one of the books I use (Great Crowns of Stone) said that this large stone was part of the stone circle that was originally in the next field at which point he pointed to the top of the field which was where I was about to wave my hand in that general direction. Then I mentioned that the large long stone had been larger at one point and had been moved from the circle when it was cleared around 1866 to become part of the field's stone dyke and then moved from the dyke to beside the pond where it is now. There was a smile on this gentleman's face and a glint in his eyes, he said that's right and told me that he helped move it from the dyke in 1973 to where it sits now. My jaw must of hung open for a while, the chap made his excuses as he needed to go and tell his son's how they weren't doing a task correctly and shook my hand and was off. This is technically one of the three destroyed sites or ghost sites listed in GCoS as the original circle location had been cleared 150 years ago.






68 Ardtannes Cottages (Ghost Site)

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 4 Page 289 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 18906
Parking Spot - What3Words ///device.enthused.downhill or digital coordinates 57.271494, -2.400424
Site location - What3Words ///emulated.discouraged.they or digital coordinates 57.273758, -2.403169
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 360m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.
Date first visited site 16th July 2022

This is one of the three destroyed sites or ghost sites that's listed in Great Crowns of Stone and I can confirm that there is indeed nothing here, nothing, not a sausage. There is a medium / large stone at the top of the field along with a pile of some medium stones that are far too big to be stones from ploughing, however GCoS mention that the circles had been cleared away before 1866 so there is little chance of finding anything. I am not sure what the technical term is to validate that theres nothing there but I can say it's not very satisfying at all. Rightly you may ask why bother visiting such a ghost site and your right it's a bit mad but if it's listed in GCoS then I shall try to visit the site






67 Blue Cairn of Ladieswell

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 14 Page 314 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17000
Parking Spot - What3Words ///hung.romantics.consonant or digital coordinates 57.139648, -2.962187
Site location - What3Words ///noise.detonated.lipstick or digital coordinates 57.144014, -2.974319
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 1.04Km
Terrain - Farm & Woodland track.
Date first visited site 16th July 2022

From the track head into the woods to the stones at What3Words ///abode.backs.weeknight or digital coordinates 57.144338, -2.973921

The long recumbent stone still stands, there is no sign of the flanker's however all the remaining circle stones have fallen, are broken and are merged with the fallen kerb stones that circle the massive cairn. The cairn is significant but has been heavily excavated leaving trenches through the site. Due to the heavy forest floor over growth it is difficult to get the true size of this massive site from these pictures.






66 Braehead

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 15 Page 317 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 17643
Parking Spot - What3Words ///aboard.prep.disclose or digital coordinates 57.322081, -2.676434
Site location - What3Words ///roadmap.triads.tarnished or digital coordinates 57.318497, -2.677833
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 610m
Terrain - Through field / tree plantation, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, through roped off gate.
Date first visited site 16th July 2022

The very large recumbent stone is standing and is the only stone on this site. Heavy gorse bush is growing over one end of this stone.






65 Auchmaliddie

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 7 Page 295 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 19879
Parking Spot - What3Words ///scarf.clinking.they or digital coordinates 57.494704, -2.197227
Site location - What3Words ///ulterior.massaging.scooters or digital coordinates 57.493788, -2.199183
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 160m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep.
Date first visited site 9th July 2022

This is an easy access site with a very short walk from the parking spot to the stones. Only two stones remain, both fallen, one massive stone, the recumbent and one large stone which may be a flanker. These are unique, stunning and special stones as they are entirely white quartz and are known as the "Rocking Stones". I look specifically for the quartz seams in the stones at recumbent sites as there is often one or two stones with a wee bit of quartz in them, but I haven't seen anything like these stones before and this is the 65th recumbent stone circle site I have visited to date, they are beautiful, I just want to return with a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush to clean them up as I imagine they would look amazing clean and blinding in the sun light.

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64 Auchmachar

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 6 Page 292 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 20746
Parking Spot - What3Words ///customers.twinge.songbirds or digital coordinates 57.541276 -2.096762
Site location - What3Words ///describes.chap.duos or digital coordinates 57.542435 -2.087681
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 730m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, over a ladder gate & fence.
Date first visited site 9th July 2022

Two circle stones still stand, one in the field and the other is at the back of the stone pile, each of these are around 2 meters tall, square and well dressed. The stone pile looks to be all of the remaining large stones, the recumbent, flanker's and the other circle stones pushed, broken and piled together around a tree. This site, the long cairn, the stones past on the way and the stones at the parking spot suggest that this was once a large significant site. 






63 Tilquhillie

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 65 Page 468 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 36704
Parking Spot - What3Words ///loyal.shrubbery.hurt or digital coordinates 57.035562, -2.450580
Site location - What3Words ///decorator.sublet.nickname or digital coordinates 57.036505, -2.454196
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 300m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, over a ladder gate.
Date first visited site 28th June 2022

The recumbent sits on top of a substantial stone wall and has done for last hundred years. It would seem likely that the original circle site was in one of the two fields that the wall divides. This same wall has other large and well dressed stones up and down its length and because of these large stones, this wall is noticeably different to the other uniform stone dyke's in the neighbouring fields. There are also piles of large dressed stones in a couple of the corners of the immediate fields which would suggest that this was significant circle site.






62 Potterton

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 55 Page 439 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 20294
Parking Spot - What3Words ///earlobes.list.amount or digital coordinates 57.239799, -2.084405
Site location - What3Words ///promotion.slippery.junction or digital coordinates 57.237966, -2.079570
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 450m
Terrain - Through field, avoid damage to crop, avoid worrying cattle / sheep, over a ladder gate.
Date first visited site 28th June 2022

The massive recumbent stone is the only standing stone with both the large flankers have fallen back either side of it and there are some medium and small stones in the centre of the site which maybe broken circle stones and a dump for field stones. The farmer has left generous scrub land around the site which has stunning views inland and out to sea.






61 Hill Of Fiddes

Great Crowns of Stone reference number - 35 Page 374 (PDF)
Canmore reference number - 20401
Parking Spot - What3Words ///backlog.roadways.added or digital coordinates 57.309225, -2.111486
Site location - What3Words ///webcams.directs.waiters or digital coordinates 57.309495, -2.109437
Route from Parking Spot to Site - OS Maps
Distance from Parking Spot to site 140m
Terrain - Farm track.
Date first visited site 28th June 2022

The large recumbent and one flanker remain and are standing with a large pile of broken circle stones and field stones behind the recumbent. The farm store hay bales, old machinery, earth piles and other bits and bobs immediately beside the stones.






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