This wonderful stone circle immediately entered my list of favourite sites. It also entered into the list of sites that it's hardest to reach, for getting to the site involves a 750m walk up a steep, boggy hillside.
The circle is almost complete with just a few fallen stones. This still does not detract from its perfection, though. The site is located on a small plateau on the hillside that offers wonderful views to the east.
The stones are grey, whereas all the rock outcrops in the area have a reddish colour. This gives the impression that they were brought in from elsewhere.
If the stones themselves, along with the twisted thorn tree that grows next to one of them, were not wonderful enough, the other features of the monument make this a very special and possibly unique structure. In the centre of the 10m diameter circle there is a boulder burial - a very common feature of local stone circles. Around this there is a smaller inner mini stone circle. I've never seen anything like this.
As you can tell I am particularly taken with this site. With its interesting design of small circle within a circle it is surprising that it is not better known, but when considering how difficult it is to reach I think I know why it is not more widely acclaimed.
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