On a destitute piece of scrub land just outside Insch, rest the carcasses of Wantonwells RSC.
The UFO still stands upright, but its flankers have been laid prostrate. Nothing a JCB and some willing labour couldn't manage, but that's another story...
Only one snake headed flanker and its gigantic disc stone survive intact (more or less). They are accompanied on their terminal voyage into obscurity by a pile of their brothers, sisters and cousins (at least they kept them together in the after-life).
Like a snake or dolphin, an exquisitely worked flanking stone, typical of the pointed shape used in RSCs. Maybe I'm not giving the flankers enough love. I've years to study their shape.
If anything, the lens, when seen alone, is even more enigmatic that a full circle.
The sun is low now. I've been around Dunnideer stopping at almost all marked stone circles. The disc shaped recumbents have been a revelation. They point to something far weirder than I'd come to associate with these monuments. Nothing like an altar, no way a person or anything could be placed upon them. Higher than the tallest man. Flat. Upright. Disc like.
I've also seen a lot of trashed and neglected sites. I will write much more about this in a dedicated post as there is much to be considered.
Extraordinary heavy metal circle near Aberdeen Dyce airport. One of the finest, most complete monuments of its kind. The growing urbanisation surrounding it cannot hold this druidic temple back.