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Croft Moraig

    Aberfeldy, Perthshire


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Panoramic view of the site
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View from below clearly showing the artificial platform on which the stones stand
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Alligator and Mrs Descartes act as yardsticks in the middle of the rings
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View from on the platform looking across the stones to the clear edge
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Looking southeast from below the level of the platform.
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Looking south across all the stones.
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Looking northwest.
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Looking northeast.
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Closer view, looking northeast.
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Some of the inner stones, looking north.
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Some of the inner stones, looking south.
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Close view, looking southwest.
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The inner stones, looking southwest.
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Another view of the inner stones.
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Close view, looking east.
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Looking from below the platform.
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Looking from below the platform.
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The circle from the south.
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The inner stones.
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The stones on the northern edge of the platform.
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Cupmarks on a prostrate stone on the southern arc.
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Looking south across the circle.
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Croft Moraig, near Aberfeldy in Perthshire, with its concentric rings and outliers on an artificial platform.

The history of the site is known from an excavation in 1965:

  • about 5000 years ago, a horseshoe arrangement of fourteen wide wooden posts was erected in an ellipse 7 metres by 8 metres. This was surrounded by a ditch.
  • the posts were later replaced by eight stones of graded height. Another smaller stone stood just outside. Some neolithic pottery was found related to this phase of the site.
  • a rubble bank was created outside the stones and cup-marked stones added that aligned with the southern moonset and the midsummer sunrise.
  • a twelve-metre diameter circle of twelve large stones was constructed and a couple of large outlying stones added.


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