Ninestanes Recumbent Stone Circle (Garrol Wood; Nine Stones)

All pictures copyright © 2000 Martin McCarthy

The recumbent and flankers looking from the west. Large Image (108kb 888x559) The east side of the ring, looking north west. Large Image (122kb 896x611) Looking northwest from outside the ring. Large Image (173kb 1164x802) The recumbent and flankers. The arrow indicates north. Large Image (216kb 1248x882) Looking south east. Large Image (172kb 1220x838) Looking south east across the width of the circle. Large Image (132kb 1248x589) Looking south. Large Image (151kb 1248x611) Looking south west. Large Image (206kb 1240x791) The whole circle, looking west. Large Image (240kb 1536x792) The recumbent and flankers, looking south. Large Image (261kb 1496x915)

Whilst looking somewhat rough and ragged, this is an impressive circle set in a clearing in the woods with a long view along a forest firebreak over the recumbent stones. The ring is a little over sixty feet in diameter, but the recumbent and flankers are set some distance inside the circumference of this ring. The recumbent is about eight feet long and the flankers, if they still stood straight, would be five and seven feet tall.