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Croft Moraig

Aberfeldy, Perthshire

Large image (800x265 - 46k) Panoramic view of the site
Large image (780x405 - 51k) View from below clearly showing the artificial platform on which the stones stand
Large image (767x250 - 31k) Alligator and Mrs Descartes act as yardsticks in the middle of the rings
Large image (1060x434 - 77k) View from on the platform looking across the stones to the clear edge
Large image (896x615 - 90k) Looking southeast from below the level of the platform.
Large image (913x602 - 103k) Looking south across all the stones.
Large image (920x641 - 103k) Looking southwest
Large image (854x621 - 91k) Looking northwest.
Large image (813x563 - 77k) Looking northeast.
Large image (928x649 - 118k) Closer view, looking northeast.
Large image (928x646 - 127k) Some of the inner stones, looking north.
Large image (920x641 - 128k) Some of the inner stones, looking south.
Large image (904x635 - 126k) Close view, looking southwest.
Large image (920x635 - 103k) The inner stones, looking southwest.
Large image (920x615 - 108k) Another view of the inner stones.
Large image (920x649 - 117k) Close view, looking east.
Large image (675x900 - 56k) Looking from below the platform.
Large image (900x675 - 131k) Looking from below the platform.
Large image (900x675 - 152k) The circle from the south.
Large image (900x675 - 93k) The inner stones.
Large image (675x900 - 145k) The stones on the northern edge of the platform.
Large image (900x675 - 204k) Cupmarks on a prostrate stone on the southern arc.
Large image (900x675 - 78k) Looking south across the circle.

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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