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Latheronwheel Burn; Newlands Of Leodebest Wick, Highland

Large image (475x750 - 90k) Looking southeast from the most easterly of the remaining stones.
Large image (500x750 - 126k) Looking from the easterly stone to the broken south stone.
Large image (850x567 - 147k) Looking from the easterly stone to the western arc. The Burn of Latheronwheel runs immediately behind the three stones on the fence-line.
Large image (850x524 - 126k) Looking from the easterly stone to the western arc.
Large image (850x527 - 123k) Looking from the easterly stone to the northwestern arc.
Large image (504x750 - 106k) Looking from the easterly stone to the north.
Large image (609x750 - 138k) The broken stone lies in the foreground with the fallen part next to it.
Large image (850x522 - 91k) Looking north.
Large image (850x525 - 145k) The stones on the western arc. The tallest stone in the circle is at the extreme left.
Large image (485x750 - 140k) The western stones.
Large image (850x656 - 164k) Looking from the tallest stone around the northwestern arc.
Large image (531x750 - 98k) The western stones.
Large image (569x750 - 118k) Lichen and moss on the tallest stone.
Large image (850x536 - 123k) Looking north from the tallest stone.
Large image (850x567 - 142k) Looking southeast from the tallest stone just after sunrise with the sun just appearing over the ridge.
Large image (850x567 - 169k) The northwestern arc.
Large image (500x750 - 154k) One of the western stones.
Large image (850x567 - 192k) The split stone at the northwest, looking northeast.
Large image (500x750 - 146k) The split stone looking southeast.
Large image (850x567 - 177k) The split stone looking along the western arc.
Large image (500x750 - 79k) The split stone at dawn.
Large image (850x537 - 92k) Looking from the split stone to the easternmost stone.
Large image (800x533 - 126k) Looking south from the split stone. The cairn can be seen rising beyond the south arc of the circle.
Large image (545x750 - 149k) Stones on the north arc.
Large image (500x750 - 126k) Looking towards the easterly stone from the north arc.
Large image (500x750 - 150k) Stones on the north arc.
Large image (800x533 - 149k) Remains of a possible cairn within the circle in the foreground. The northwestern arc behind.
Large image (850x448 - 140k) Remains of a possible cairn within the circle in the foreground. The northwestern arc behind.
Large image (850x548 - 148k) The southern cairn is in the foreground. The southernmost (broken) stone of the circle is on the extreme right of the picture. The western arc is at the top left.
Large image (500x750 - 139k) The west arc with the southern cairn rising beyond.
Large image (850x622 - 186k) The southwest arc with the southern cairn at the top right of the picture.
Large image (850x419 - 109k) The easternmost and southern stone with the low mound of the cairn behind the stone stump.
Large image (850x231 - 70k) Looking down on the circle from the east.
Large image (850x384 - 109k) Looking down on the western arc from the east.
Large image (850x403 - 116k) Looking down on the northwestern arc from the east.
Large image (850x571 - 139k) Looking to the northwest from the southern stone.
Large image (850x415 - 115k) Looking to the south from the northern arc. The western stones are at the right of the picture. The most easterly remaining stone is in the distance at the left of the picture. The missing stones of the eastern arc of the circle, if they still stood, would extend almost as far again beyond the left of the picture.

Although somewhat ruined, this is one of the twenty largest stone circles in Britain being approximately 55 metres in diameter.

The Burn of Latheronwheel has eroded right up to the edge of the circle with the westernmost stones standing right on its edge, but happily it has yet to undermine the stones themselves. There are eight stones still here, one of which is broken. The stones of the eastern part of the circle - possibly as many as seven of them - are lost.

The tallest stone is 1.5 metres (just under 5 feet) tall and stands on the edge of the burn.

A cairn lies just to the south of the broken stone at the southern point of the circle.

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