📌 Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
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Follow increasingly narrow country lanes uphill to the west of Inverurie and you’ll eventually arrive at one of the best preserved stone circles anywhere in Scotland. Easter Aquhorthies is about 4,000 years old, and is a “recumbent” stone circle – a type only found in northeast Scotland, and which features a large stone laid horizontally flanked by two upright boulders. The circle may have enclosed an even older cairn and / or cremation pyre, and is aligned towards the southwest, in common with most other recumbent circles. There are good views of the distinctive summit of Mither Tap (Bennachie) to the west.
🌍 Location
📌 Beyond minor road end 3 mi west of Inverurie
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NJ 732208
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.277016,-2.445538
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
🚗 Car park at 🧭 NJ 732211 / 🛰️ 57.279468,-2.445687
📝 Key info
⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
💬 From the car park it’s a 5-min walk to the stone circle on good farm tracks.
