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