Colen Stone Circle Traditional Cache
perth pathfinders: Thanks to twomax for checking this one out for me.
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Uphill walk over grass, with a stile to cross from the start. There are sheep in the field, and a barbed wire fence near the cache.
Stone circles are thought to be monuments which were set up in prehistoric times as shrines to ancient gods, ritual meeting places of the living, and burial places for the dead. They were reused, and added to over many centuries, just as churches have been in more recent times.
Most of the stone circles found in Scotland were constructed between 5000 and 3000 years ago, some began as timber circles, later to be replaced by stones.
It is thought that the people who built stone circles included the descendants of the first farmers in Scotland, about 5000 years ago. Quartz was sometimes scattered on the ground and fires were lit in, and around, the circles. Later, burial ceremonies took place, with cremated bone from funeral pyres being buried in pits, or with pottery vessels such as beakers and urns.
This walk takes you up to Colen Wood Stone Circle, a stone circle with a diameter of approx. 25ft. although many of the stones are now missing.
The 'circle' is located on a hill and in a farming area, it is thought the stones, over the years, have been knocked and simply rolled to the bottom of the hill and been removed or buried.
One stone still remains standing and is approx. 3' high, and there is a fallen stone. There is a debate whether it was an eight or nine stone ring, and in the centre of the circle is thought to be the remains of a cyst.
There are great views of Perthshire from here.
Cache is a 35m film container
Additional Hints
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