Pete Crane

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Stravaiging & posting about Scotland's great outdoors, ancient & modern, & other stuff .. inc life in the #Cairngorms Director Mountaineering Scotland & MBA vmo

A 2.5 metre high standing stone thought to be the only remaining stone of the outlying ring of a Clava cairn
A huge recumbent stone under the shadow of nature trees. The single remaining standing stone is in the distance at the right hand side of the photo.
A circle of boulders roughly 20 metres in diameter forming the outer ring of the original, now gone, burial cairn
Front of picture is the rock walled circular chamber with a view down the entrance tunnel. Trees are growing on what little remains of the surrounding cairn.
A large recumbent stone and two upright flankers all under the shadow of a mature tree behind. The rolling hills of Aberdeenshire forms the distant horizon.
A large cracked recumbent stone lying between to tall standing stones. Mature trees behind the stones.
A large stone cairn 20 metres in diameter and some 2.3 metres high.
Center right is the recumbent stone and two flankers, and to the left is a single standing stone.
A half circle of large, moss-covered boulders, located in a mature woodland.
Two tall standing stones over 2m tall either side of a huge recumbent stone.
The long recumbent stone in a crop field with a tall flanker on the right. To the left are two smaller standing stones that formed part of the original circle.
Boggy low ground covered with white flowering cotton grass. Burnt trees and blackened hill ground beyond still clear evidence of the huge fire of June 2025.
The outer kerb of bigger stones is partially intact sitting in heather with mature conifer trees behind
Three tall standing stones in grassland with other fallen stones in the background.
A circle of large boulders, 12.5m in diameter, on a grassy hillock. The rocks once formed the outer ring of the cairn - now gone. Mature trees fill the background.
Located in a woodland clearance on a small hill is a huge, four metre long, recumbent stone flanked by two large, 2.7m tall, standing stones. Well impressive.
Top photo of the snow cover mountain this morning, below the same mountain with only a few patches of deep snow remaining.
Centre of the picture is a large conglomerate standing stone, with two others in the background to the left. In the background to the right is part of the circular ring of cairn stones.
Set in a mature broadleaved woodland, in the centre of the picture is the recumbent and fallen stone looking like one stone at this angle. Behind the remaining flanker at 2.6m tall fills the picture.
A circle of large kerb stones some 23 metres in diameter with a large tree and hedge in the background ‘hiding’ its location on a housing estate.
Centre picture is the recumbent stone measuring 2.8m in length and 1.95m in height. The two flanker stones either side are 2.25m and 2m in height. The stones sit under mature trees.
Cover of the book on the right & map of UK National Parks on the left we me and our daughter Jo inset
Large central standing stone with four others in the background circling the few remains of the cairn
A standing stone 2.3m high and about 0.5m square in a grazing field.
Two pictures of the mountain,; bottom one fully snow covered and the top with about two thirds of the snow gone.
Centre picture is a large but incomplete circle of stones that once formed the outer ring of the cairn. Large, mature broadleaf trees are growing in the centre of the circle. On the left of the picture is a large outlying standing stone.
Circle of large kerb stones of the original cairn located in the garden of a modern house built in 2021.
Three snow covered standing stones within the circle of the henge.
The huge 3.4-metre-high pointed monolith outlying the main circle of the cairn
Six large stones up to 2 metres high forming a circle 9 metres in diameter in a field