Circles.

The Moyness Stone Circle has been dismantled, but it was unique in one respect. One of the boulders of which the circle was composed was said o have been a rocking stone, or loggan, and according to traditional belief was used as an ordeal stone for determining the innocence or guilt of a person accused of crime.If the stone rocked when the person was placed on it guilt was established; if it remained unmoved, innocence was declared. Considerable sanctity, as may be supposed, attached to this tell-tale stone with its mysterious movements, but the school children of later times, with irreverent familiarity, were wont to play upon it. From p3 of ‘History of Nairnshire’ by George Bain (1893)

The beautiful weather took us out and about yesterday and my guide for the day showed me this stone circle. I'm not sure how many of the stones are where they were  originally placed; certainly many are missing. They've probably become part of a croft or a wall elsewhere. This must be the best time of year to see it; much later and the grasses would have drowned the remaining stones. It was a double circle with a depression between the two. The lichens are beautiful.

The Moyness Stone Circle has been dismantled, but it was unique in one respect. One of the boulders of which the circle was composed was said o have been a rocking stone, or loggan, and according to traditional belief was used as an ordeal stone for determining the innocence or guilt of a person accused of crime.If the stone rocked when the person was placed on it guilt was established; if it remained unmoved, innocence was declared. Considerable sanctity, as may be supposed, attached to this tell-tale stone with its mysterious movements, but the school children of later times, with irreverent familiarity, were wont to play upon it. From p3 of ‘History of Nairnshire’ by George Bain (1893)