PeteCrane5

PeteCrane5, 5 days ago to random

Making the most of todays good weather in the #Cairngorms

PeteCrane5, 7 days ago to random

Lagmore West at it's beautiful best this week. Dramatically sited high above the confluence of rivers Spey and Avon, thought to be one of only 50 Clava Cairns. #StandingStoneSunday
Lot's more pics. on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1332

PeteCrane5, 12 days ago to random

Evolution? Cnoc Udais Bronze Age cairn sitting next to our 'Communication Age' mast #TombTuesday
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@megalithic share where to find it, and the view from the hill top, here

PeteCrane5, 18 days ago to random

No roads lead to the remote Dun Geilbt at the southern end of #IsleOfSkye so we kayaked out to see it ... #HillFortsWednesday ... a dramatic location.
More info on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=27588

PeteCrane5, 21 days ago to random

Clach-a-charra south of #FortWilliam ... both the sheep & the stone seemed to be 'looking at me' #StandingStoneSunday
More, dramatic, images on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7608

PeteCrane5, 23 days ago to random

Days full of beauty ... out this week with friends 'Over the sea to Skye' and then on to stunning #IsleOfEigg. Three nights camping and 92 km paddled ... still smiling but well tired. #ExploreTheSea

Pete and Fran kayaking alongside Isle of Eigg - clear blue sky and calm sea.
An Sgùrr hill forming a stunning backdrop to Pete kayaking to Eigg Harbour

PeteCrane5, 1 month ago to random

Castle Hill Henge, Muir of Ord, is now the 13th green on the golf course .... I can only imagine the original neolithic builders would question it's current use as much we question their design .... #TombTuesday?

PeteCrane5, 1 month ago to random

Claverhouse's Stone #Killiecrankie ... ... a stone with stories, some told here on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=7935
#StandingStoneSunday

PeteCrane5, 1 month ago to random

Avielochan near Aviemore in the #Cairngorms is thought to be the site of two Clava Cairns; one easy to see & to the SE 'a circular bank of stony material' #TombTuesday. More pics on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=466

PeteCrane5, 1 month ago to random

"A bit of a jumble of stones" HHER describing the remains of Culchunaig Clava Cairn on the south of the #Culloden Battlefield nr Inverness #TombTuesday Couple more pics on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=831

PeteCrane5, 1 month ago to random

The beautiful outlying stone to Loch Buie Stone Circle on #IsleofMull ... #StandingStoneSunday
Images of the circle on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=491

PeteCrane5, 2 months ago to random

This Easter I saw more ancient tombs in one day than the rest of my life .... photos of a few of thousands at Pantalica in #Sicily ... #TombTuesday
More on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=14989

Looking into a tomb
Many toms cut into a limestone cliff

PeteCrane5, 2 months ago to xcountryskiing

'Vast, calm, measureless mountain days ..' so, so fortunate to be back in Norway in Langsua #NationalPark
#nordicskiing #xcountryskiing #crosscountryskiing

Two ski tourers crossing a snow covered mountain
Four ski tourers on a windblown mountain

PeteCrane5, 2 months ago to random

New research suggests we have over six times as many #GiantRedwood in UK as in their native habitat of California. These three in #NethyBridge are around 130 yrs old. More info on BBC here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68518623

PeteCrane5, 2 months ago to random

Glenlivet Stone 'overlooking' the distillery. The stone is on 1869 & current OS map yet for some reason doesn't seem to be listed by Historic Environment Scotland? As ever, more questions than answers #StandingStoneSunday

Wen, 2 months ago to Iceland

Standing Stone Sunday (kind of)

The unknown bureaucrat, Reykjavik

#StandingStoneSunday #Reykjavik #Iceland #Statue #Art

PeteCrane5, 3 months ago to random

Grenish near Aviemore in the #Cairngorms. The remains of one of six Clava Cairns along this end of the River Spey #TombTuesday. More pictures before the natural regeneration tree growth, on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/leaflet_megalith_map.php?country=3

PeteCrane5, 3 months ago to random

Culburnie is one of at least four Clava Cairns now in a garden #StandingStoneSunday More on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=830

PeteCrane5, 3 months ago to random

"This site was recorded as part of the RCAHMS Emergency Survey, undertaken by Angus Graham and Vere Gordon Childe during World War 2"; Belladrum South chambered cairn, thought to be of Orkney-Cromarty type #TombTuesday

PeteCrane5, 3 months ago to random

At 3.35m tall the largest stone at Mains of Gask Clava Cairn south of Inverness #StandingStoneSunday. More pics on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=471

PeteCrane5, 3 months ago to random

Meg's Stone, Belladrum .... said to be her burial place because the pallbearers over indulged at the local inn and could go not further #StandingStoneSunday

PeteCrane5, 3 months ago to random

Fresh dusting of snow this week on Mains of Moyness ... thought to be the remains of one of only 50 Clava Cairns #StandingStoneSunday More pics on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=1158

PeteCrane5, 4 months ago to random

If only it had fallen as snow .... River Nethy in 'full flow' through the #Cairngorms today.

PeteCrane5, 4 months ago to random

Sadly, Upper Port nr Grantown in the #Cairngorms fell down over a decade ago. Thought by some to be half of a four poster. No longer #StandingStoneSunday
More on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=10012

PeteCrane5, 4 months ago to random

'The glory that once was..' all that remains of Bruiach Clava Cairn is the kerb and outer circle of standing stones #TombTuesday. More pic on @megalithic here https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=467