Bigstones

Nearest Town: Old Deer, Aberdeenshire

OS Grid Reference: NJ 959 471

Directions: On Minor road, south of B9029, west of Park Hill. Signposted. Park at second signpost at bottom of green lane. Avoid blocking field entrance. Walk 400 yards uphill, turn right through kissing gate into copse of trees. Follow stone edged path for no more than 150 yards and circle will appear in front of you.

Site Notes: Fantastic RSC-is there any other kind? Although its pretty obvious that all megaliths are heavy, the first thing I thought on stepping out of the trees is ‘Wow, this is big.’ A real feeling of scale is given by this site, assisted by the fact that the remaining standing stones are all over 6 feet.

A real use of colour was again made here: the embanking stones being a mixture of pink & grey granite, the circle stones all grey. The recumbent, huge and pitted was obviously set in place ‘just so’. It would have lain much easier rotated around 180 degrees, but the use of chocking stones to achieve a particular relationship with the horizon is very obvious.

I do like the picture I captured of the ’smiling shark’ below!