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Bengengie North, Alva, Clackmannanshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – NN 86680 00601 — NEW FIND Getting Here This really take a lot of effort to find. From Alva, go up through the graveyard past St. Serf’s Well, turning left and across cross the lane. … Continue reading
Garchel Burn, Glendevon, Perthshire
Hut Circles: OS Grid Reference – NN 9696 0182 Also Known as: Canmore ID 25942 Getting Here Along the A823 road from the Pool of Muckhart up to Glendevon, watch out for the small left turning opposite the car-parking spot … Continue reading
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
Rivock Enclosure, Riddlesden, Keighley, West Yorkshire
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – SE 0768 4414 — NEW DISCOVERY Getting Here Follow the directions to reach the small Rivock East Carving just on the level of the small moorland. From here, walk less than 100 yards east, staying … Continue reading
Leaston House, Humbie, East Lothian
Cup-and-Ring Stone (lost): OS Grid Reference – NT 483 634 Also Known as: Canmore ID 54771 Archaeology & History The concentric ring carving shown here was found on the north side of the large gardens at Leaston House early in … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Lothian, East
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Blegbie, Bronze Age, carved stones, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, earth mysteries, East Lothian, Gifford, Humbie, Lammermuir, neolithic, Pencaitland, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, sacred sites, Scotland, Scottish history, Stobshiel
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Fortingall Churchyard, Perthshire
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – NN 7417 4703 Also Known as: Canmore ID 25003 Getting Here Go into the Fortingall churchyard, turning left through the gates (walking across in front of the enclosed sacred yew tree), towards the dip … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Perthshire
Tagged Rock art, petroglyphs, neolithic, Bronze Age, Archaeology, antiquities, antiquarian, paganism, Scotland, cup-and-rings, Perthshire, Fortingall, sacred sites, prehistoric sites, Scottish, Trees, Strathtay, carved stones, earth mysteries, heritage, cup markin gs, yews
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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
Fairy Stone, Fourstones, Northumberland
Legendary Stone: OS Grid Reference – NY 893 680 Archaeology & History Thought to have been destroyed in the 19th century, folklorists and historians alike didn’t seem to be able to locate this little-known folklore relic, which is still alive … Continue reading
Fraggle Rock, Burley Moor, West Yorkshire
Cup-and-Ring Stone — NEW DISCOVERY Archaeology & History This carving is one in a cluster of at least 17 previously unrecorded petroglyphs, uncovered nearly two years ago on a Northern Antiquarian bimble on the northern edge of Rombald’s Moor. The … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Yorkshire, West
Tagged antiquarian, antiquities, archaeological, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial, Burley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, cairns, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, death, earth mysteries, heritage, ilkley moor, legends, petroglyphs, prehistoric sites, Rock art, Rombalds Moor, sacred sites, tombs, West Yorkshire, Wharfedale
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