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Giant’s Knowe, Culloch, Muthill, Perthshire
Cairn (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NN 7848 1762 Also Known as: Canmore ID 24797 Crock-nafion Fingalian’s Knowe Archaeology & History Amidst the colourful and nurturing landscape close to the gigantic Dunruchan standing stones and just along the road from … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Perthshire
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, Comrie, Crieff, death, earth mysteries, folklore, giants, Glen Artney, heritage, legends, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, Muthill, neolithic, Perthshire, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Scotland, Standing Stones, tombs, tumulus
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Lentran, Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire
Cist (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NS 798 973 Also Known as: Annfield Canmore ID 47129 Archaeology & History On the level ground a half-mile south of the large Fairy Knowe prehistoric tomb, Bridge of Allan had a site of … Continue reading
Balbirnie Stone Circle, Markinch, Fife
Stone Circle: OS Grid Reference – NO 28578 02958 Also Known as: 1. Druid’s Circle Getting Here Take the A92 road running north out of Glenrothes towards Freuchie and, after a couple of miles out of town, you’ll hit the … Continue reading
Posted in Fife & Kinross, Stone Circles
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, carved stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, death, earth mysteries, Fife, Freuchie, Glenrothes, heritage, Markinch, megalithic, Megaliths, neolithic, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, Scotland, Stone Circles, tombs
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Coldstone Beck Cairn (01), Burley Moor, West Yorkshire
Cairn: OS Grid Reference – SE 1421 4514 — NEW DISCOVERY Getting Here From Burley train station walk up the road, turning right as you meet the moorland road. Go on for a couple of hundred yards until you run parallel … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, archaeological, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burials, Burley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, cairns, death, earth mysteries, England, Ilkley, neolithic, prehistoric sites, Rombald, Rombalds Moor, sacred sites, tombs, tumuli, tumulus, West Yorkshire, Wharfedale
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Came Down Carving, Winterborne Came, Bincombe, Dorset
Cup-and-Ring Stone: OS Grid Reference – SY 680 860 Also Known as: Winterborne Came 18b Carving (Grinsell) Archaeology & History On January 27, 1848, the great Dorsetshire antiquarian Charles Warne sent a letter to the British Archaeological Association about a … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Dorset
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bincombe, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, carved stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, death, Dorchester, Dorset, earth mysteries, neolithic, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, ritual remains, Rock art, sacred sites, symbolism, tumuli, tumulus, Winterborne Came
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Kinnell, Killin, Perthshire
Stone Circle: OS Grid Reference – NN 57699 32805 Also Known as: Killin P1/3 (Thom) Getting Here At the pub by the bridge which crosses the Falls of Dochart (aptly called the ‘Falls of Dochart Inn’), walk downstream following the … Continue reading
Posted in Perthshire, Stone Circles
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burials, cairns, death, earth mysteries, folklore, geomancy, Killin, megalithic, Megaliths, neolithic, Perthshire, prehistoric sites, ritual sites, sacred sites, Scotland, Scottish, Standing Stones, Stirling, Stone Circles, Tayside, tombs
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Slade Cairnfield, Blubberhouses Moor, North Yorkshire
Cairnfield: OS Grid Reference – SE 141 543 — NEW DISCOVERY Getting Here Follow the same directions to reach the recently discovered Slade-02 carving; and simply walk 30 yards southwest. The scattered ruins of numerous small stone piles, visible only … Continue reading
Posted in Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, North
Tagged antiquities, Archaeology, Blubberhouses, Bronze Age, burials, cairnfields, cairns, carved stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, death, earth mysteries, neolithic, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, solar, symbolism, tumuli, tumulus, Washburn Valley
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Kirkmoor Beck Farm, Fylingthorpe, North Yorkshire
Stone Circle: OS Grid Reference – NZ 924 030 Also Known as: Kirk Moor Beck Farm Kirkmoorbeck Farm Archaeology & History Although originally classed as a stone circle, this site should more accurately be described as a form of cairn … Continue reading
