View SW of Strichen recumbent stone circle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, with the ruin of Strichen House, built 1821 by Lord Lovat, to the rear.
View SW of Strichen recumbent stone circle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, with the ruin of Strichen House, built 1821 by Lord Lovat, to the rear. The circle has been damaged, adapted; removed & restored, incorrectly, several times. From 1979-82 the site was properly excavated & reconstructed using the original stones in their correct stone holes, initially by Aubrey Burl & then Phil Abramson & Ian Hampsher-Monk. The stones are graded up in height to the flanking stones & recumbent at the SSE aligned to the southern maximum moonrise. Remains of an earlier timber ring were discovered at the centre along with a ring-cairn & burial cist. A female cremation in an urn was discovered beside a stone hole & a cupmarked stone buried in a stone-lined pit. Quartz was smashed on site on an anvil stone, placed in an arc opposite the recumbent & scattered throughout the stony bank linking the uprights.
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Location: Strichen Recumbent Stone Circle, Strichen House, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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