View SSE of the remains of three prehistoric stone settings 300m ESE of Fortingall Church, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK. Excavated in 1970.
View SSE of the remains of three prehistoric stone settings 300m ESE of Fortingall Church, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK. Excavations in 1970 revealed that the W (R) & NE (L) groups had each originally comprised 8 stones set in a rectangle with large stones at the corners & smaller ones at the centre of each side. Each setting had had five stones deliberately pushed over & buried, a Victorian beer bottle was found under one of the toppled stones. Four-Poster stone circles, in use from the Neolithic-Bronze Age, are often connected with cremations; charcoal & burnt bones were recovered from the NE setting. The far (SE) setting is a row of three stones in a SE-NW line. Having found a hole for a fourth stone, Aubrey Burl suggested a ruined & idiosyncratic recumbent stone circle, but others disgree saying it is a simple stone row or the remains of a third rectangle. The stones are waterworn boulders of blue whinstone with magnetic properties. The view looks towards the River Lyon in the valley bottom, with Loch Tay on the other side of the ridge. Ancient monuments at Fortingall were used into modern times during Beltane & November celebrations.
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Location: Fortingall Stone Settings, Aberfeldy, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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