Achany
Stone Circle
NC 560 029
From
the parking space by the dam follow the A839 onwards for about 1.5 miles
and you will come to a forest. Park where there is a forest track on both
sides of the road. Take the track south (on the left) and walk for about
½ mile. When the path bends steeply to the west (right) the circle is due
west from here ¼ mile into the forest. Don’t try this one without a
compass as it is easy to get lost. There is no path and the trees are
dense, tangled and it is boggy. We found someone had tied orange marker
tapes on the trees going in the right direction and rather than giving up
we followed these in the end.
We think we found this circle but all the stones were overgrown with moss and it was not very clear with all the fallen trees. (The number of fallen trunks we thought were stones!) Anyway it originally had 10 stones in an ellipse measuring around 29 by 25 metres but we only found 7 fairly small granite like boulders and one large one about 1 metre high on a slightly raised area. This is not an easy site to get to but it is very easy to get lost.
A possible circle stone
Achany
Chambered Tomb
NC 571 019
This
is at the other end of the forest track on the way to the Shin River
Falls, a salmon leap, forest walk and coffee shop. From the parking space
for the circle drive back towards Lairg but take the first right just
after leaving the forest. This takes you to the road that runs along the
river, turn right into this and when you see a stone bridge ahead park in
the forestry entrance just before it. Walk over the bridge and go in the
field though a gap in the fence.
On top of the cairn
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