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The Cullerlie Stone Circle near Garlogie viewed from the NE and giving a sense of this well ordered small circle only of stones as aganist the more common Aberdeenshire recumbent style.

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A close up of the central stones at Cullerlie with a possible cremation pyre and burial centre pit.

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North easterly of the overall site at Sunhoney near Echt and a still very evocative example of the Aberdeenshire Recumbent Stone Circle

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The apparently low and very large recumbent (altar) stone with its upright and shapely flankers set in its circle of mature trees makes Sunhoney one of the most picturesque of North Eastern Scotland Stone Circles

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Standing like a killer whale fin this monolith forms a complete outer ing at Sunhoney overlooking the Mid Mar road to Tarland and is not far from the famous Mid Mar Kirk circle

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The Mid Mar Kirk with its recumbent stone circle, an illustration of the ongoing spiritual nature of this site spanning thousands of years

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The substantial flankers and recumbent of the Keig Stone Circle near Keig in Strathdon

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From this viewpoint more of the remaining site at Keig is visible, a year before the Cothiemuir site was excavated by Reading University in September 2001

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The Cothiemuir Wood site of the Keig Recumbent Stone Circle from the usual approach two years after the Reading dig in 2001

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The recumbent and flankers at Keig in the summer of 2003 with the central stone looking like a massive beached whale

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The Keig site viwed from a central burial pit and with recent evidence of maybe modern spiritual activity although whether pink candles where around in the bronze Age is debatable?

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The glistening monolith of quartz gives a focus for the Recumbent Stone Circle at Easter Aquhorthies and a distant Bennachie near Inverurie

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The glorious colour of the flankers and recumbent of the Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle gives this Aberdeenshire circle a very special quality

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Overlooking the Inverurie to Oldmeldrum Rd is the recumbent and large pointed flanker of the Kirkton of Burtie stone circle

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When accessible after the harvest, the remaining flanker frames this panoramic view over the River Don and Inverurie to distant Bennachie

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The Loanhead of Daviot Recumbent Stone Circle north of Inverurie on the Rothienorman Road is probably the largest and best kept stone circle in Aberdeenshire

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Moving closer, the main recumbent circle is viewed over an adjacent ring cairn, another unique feature of the Daviot site

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The relatively small recumbent and flankers are viewed from one of the out lying monoliths and dating as most of these sites from the Bronze age around 2000bc

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A more recent photograph of the Loanhead of Daviot in very different light shows the other side of the circle from a large monolith

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The flankers surround the recumbent with weird grotesque shapes which one sfeels where chosen for their unique shapes and not as a result of 4000years of weathering.