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Wizard’s Stone, Dollar, Clackmannanshire
Legendary Stone: OS Grid Reference – NS 9657 9902 Getting Here From Dollar town centre, take the road up to the gorgeous Castle Campbell, but instead of turning up towards the castle, keep on the road, uphill, for another quarter-mile. … Continue reading
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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Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Lancashire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – SJ 3997 8638 Archaeology & History Similar in size and appearance to one of the cup-marked Tuilyies standing stones in Fife, Scotland, it was our old ley-hunter, Alfred Watkins, who described this stone in … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Lancashire, Standing Stones
Tagged Allerton, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, druids, earth mysteries, geomancy, heritage, Lancashire, Liverpool, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Robin Hood, Rock art, sacred sites, Standing Stones
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Tuilyies, Torryburn, Fife
Standing Stones: OS Grid Reference – NT 0291 8660 Also Known as: Canmore ID 49451 The Tuilyies Getting Here Go west out of Dunfermline on the A994 till you hit the Torryburn roundabout, taking the A985 Kincardine road. Barely a … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Fife & Kinross, Standing Stones
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Culross, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, earth mysteries, Fife, geomancy, heritage, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, Scotland, Standing Stones, Torryburn
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Tir Artair, Killin, Perthshire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – NN 58870 34720 Also Known as: Canmore ID 24205 Getting Here This lovely standing stone can be a pain-in-the arse to get to! Unless you wanna clamber over the excess of increasingly stupid deer … Continue reading
Clach na h’ Iobairte, Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference - NN 61702 58975 Also Known as: Canmore ID 24576 Chieftain’s Grave Clach na h-Iobairte Clach na h-Jobairte Craiganour Stone Craig-na-Odhar Stone of Sacrifice Stone of the Offering Getting Here From the gorgeous village of Kinloch … Continue reading
Posted in Perthshire, Standing Stones
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, cairns, death, earth mysteries, folklore, Gaelic, Kinloch Rannoch, Loch Rannoch, megalithic, Megaliths, monoliths, neolithic, Perthshire, prehistoric sites, ritual sites, sacred sites, Scotland, Standing Stones, tombs
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Healey Stone Circles, Masham, North Yorkshire
Stone Circles (destroyed): OS Grid Reference - SE 170 810 Archaeology & History I was hoping to get a Northern Antiquarian team to explore this arena before moving to Scotland, as I lived in hope that we might uncover some … Continue reading
Standing Stone, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Standing Stone (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – unknown Archaeology & History Not included in the Canmore listings, nor that of the Scottish Royal Commission (1929), this lost standing stone once stood somewhere in Linlithgow town itself. It was referred to … Continue reading
Hammond Close Stone, Threshfield, North Yorkshire
Standing Stones: OS Grid Reference – SD 95161 65209 Getting Here From Threshfield, go up Skirethorns Lane for about 1/2 mile, where the lane takes a sharp right. Continue uphill for nearly 2 miles to a metal gate. Go through … Continue reading
Posted in Standing Stones, Yorkshire, North
Tagged neolithic, Bronze Age, folklore, monoliths, Megaliths, Archaeology, megalithic, Standing Stones, leys, antiquities, antiquarian, North Yorkshire, cairns, Wharfedale, Malham, Grassington, sacred sites, prehistoric sites, Bordley, Threshfield, Kilnsey, Conistone, earth mysteries, heritage
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Blue Stane, St. Andrews, Fife
Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – NO 50545 16708 Also Known as: Blue Stone Getting Here From the bus station in town, walk across the road and to your right, as if you’re heading into the town centre. Barely 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Standing Stones, Fife & Kinross, Scotland
Tagged Bronze Age, folklore, monoliths, Megaliths, Archaeology, megalithic, antiquities, antiquarian, legends, Scotland, standing stone, Picts, pictish, sacred sites, prehistoric sites, superstitions, earth mysteries, St. Andrews, Irno Age
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