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Tomnaverie Stone Circle WTN0347JHP Tomnaverie Stone Recumbent Circle Bronze Age Morven Photo altar flankers North east Scotland is at Tomnaverie, a small hill near Tarland on Royal Deeside with a distant Lochnagar mountain viewed through the flankers and over the altar stone, in this case Morven and was recently excavated, dated to around 1800BC and partially restored by Reading University. A modern carpark with disabled access has been provided by Historic Scotland and coach lay-by as well and is easily reached after a short climb up a prepared path. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Tarland, Tomnaverie, Recumbent, Stone, Circle, ring, cairn, landscape, Morven, Lochnagar, history, Bronze Age, ancient, archaeology, ancestors, neolithic, stones, altar, flankers, monolith, hilltop, cremation, burial, cult, quartz, granite, antiquity, cremation
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Photographer: Jim Henderson
Collection: Ancient Stones
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Tomnaverie Stone Circle WTN0347JHP
Upload Date: 2009-03-31 12:59:01
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Tomnaverie Stone Recumbent Circle Bronze Age Morven Photo altar flankers

North east Scotland is at Tomnaverie, a small hill near Tarland on Royal Deeside with a distant Lochnagar mountain viewed through the flankers and over the altar stone, in this case Morven and was recently excavated, dated to around 1800BC and partially restored by Reading University. A modern carpark with disabled access has been provided by Historic Scotland and coach lay-by as well and is easily reached after a short climb up a prepared path.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Royal Deeside, Tarland, Tomnaverie, Recumbent, Stone, Circle, ring, cairn, landscape, Morven, Lochnagar, history, Bronze Age, ancient, archaeology, ancestors, neolithic, stones, altar, flankers, monolith, hilltop, cremation, burial, cult, quartz, granite, antiquity, cremation