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St. Margaret’s Stone, Dunfermline, Fife
Cup-Marked Stone: OS Grid Reference – NT 10837 85060 Getting Here Take the A823 road out of Dunfermline south towards Rosyth. A half-mile before you hit the motorway roundabout, at the roundabout where Carnegie Avenue takes you east, turn west … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Fife & Kinross, Scotland
Tagged ancient monuments, ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, Dunfermline, Fife, folklore, healing, heritage, kingship, legends, neolithic, Petroglyphs, prehistoric rock art, prehistoric sites, Queen Margaret, queens, Queensferry, Rosyth, sacred sites, saints, Scotland, St. Margaret, tourist attractions, traditions
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Tom-a-Clachan, Kirkmichael, Perthshire
Stone Circle (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NO 0808 5985 Archaeology & History Kirkmichael parish was an area that was described by George Chalmers (1887) as possessing “a vast body of Druid remains,” there being “a number of Druid cairns in the … Continue reading
Posted in Perthshire, Scotland, Stone Circles
Tagged ancient monuments, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, druids, earth mysteries, heritage, Kirkmichael, megalithic, Megaliths, neolithic, Perthshire, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, Standing Stones, Stone Circles, Strathardle
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Kalemouth Carving, Eckford, Roxburghshire
Cup-and-Ring Stone: OS Grid Reference – NT 714 275 Archaeology & History Now housed in the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh, this little-known petroglyph was rediscovered in 1957 by a Mr G.F. Ritchie, not far from the once-large Kalemouth … Continue reading
Posted in Cup-and-Ring Stones, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Tagged ancient monuments, animism, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Borders, Bronze Age, cairns, carved stones, Crailing, cup-and-rings, cup-markings, death, earth mysteries, Eckford, heritage, neolithic, Petroglyphs, prehistoric rock art, prehistoric sites, Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, sacred sites, Scotland, symbolism, tombs
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Boskenna Cross, St Buryan, Cornwall
Wayside Cross: OS Grid Reference – SW 42579 24266 Also Known as: Historic England Grade II Listed Building No. 1007955 Getting Here Travelling along the B3315 from Penzance to Lands End, the Cross is on the south side of the … Continue reading
Denoon Law, Glamis, Angus
Hill Fort: OS Grid Reference – NO 35464 44395 Also Known as: Canmore ID 32139 Law of Denoon Getting Here Travelling north through Balkeerie on the Newtyle/Glamis road, turn right onto the Denoon road and follow it to the T-junction. … Continue reading
Posted in Angus, Hillforts, Scotland
Tagged ancient monuments, ancient sites, Angus, Archaeology, Balkeerie, Denoon, Denoon Glen, Denoon Law, Earthworks, fairy folk, fairy lore, folklore, Glamis, Hillforts, legends, prehistoric sites, Queen of the fairies, Scotland, Sidlaws
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Hill Chapel Cross, Horns Lane, Goosnargh, Lancashire
Wayside Cross : OS Grid Reference – SD 57273 38505 Also Known as: Historic England Monument No. 42648 Getting Here The Cross base is situated in a thick hedgerow on the east side of Horns Lane, opposite St Francis’ Hill … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Crosses, Lancashire
Tagged ancient monuments, ancient sites, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Brigantia, Crosses, England, english heritage, Goosnargh, Hill Chapel, Horns Lane Goosnargh, Inglewhite, Lancashire, Longridge, medieval history, St Francis Hill Chapel, wayside crosses
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Round Hill Field, Ferrybridge, West Yorkshire
Tumulus (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – SE 47336 24493 Also Known as: Mound 1 (Roberts) Roundhill Field Archaeology & History Close to the important ceremonial monument of Ferrybridge Henge could once be seen be this singular grave and ring-ditch, 53 … Continue reading
Posted in Brigantia (Northern England), Cairns, Tombs, Tumuli, Yorkshire, West
Tagged Airedale, ancient monuments, antiquarian, antiquities, Archaeology, Bronze Age, burial mounds, cairns, Castleford, death, earth mysteries, Elmet, England, english heritage, Ferry Fryston, Ferrybridge, Henges, Knottingley, neolithic, Pontefract, prehistoric sites, sacred sites, tumuli, tumulus, West Yorkshire
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Springfield Lyons, Chelmsford, Essex
Enclosure: OS Grid Reference – TL 7357 0818 Archaeology & History We’ve known that there was an excessive number of prehistoric archaeological sites in and around the Chelmsford region for quite a long time now, but defining precisely the age … Continue reading
Harestanes, Ancrum, Roxburghshire
Stone Circle (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NT 641 240 Archaeology & History Mentioned briefly by Burl (2000), this site is another of the countless megalithic monuments in our islands that has been destroyed. References to it are few and … Continue reading
Posted in Roxburghshire, Stone Circles
Tagged ancient monuments, Ancrum, antiquities, Archaeology, Bonjedward, Bronze Age, earth mysteries, megalithic, Megaliths, neolithic, prehistoric sites, River Teviot, Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, sacred sites, Standing Stones, Stone Circles, Teviotdale
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