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This is a list of stone circles located in the Scottish Borders council area of Scotland. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland records 16 stone circles in the Scottish Borders. Of these, three are marked as 'possible'. [1]
Aubrey Burl lists 43 stone circles in Dumfries and Galloway: 15 in Dumfriesshire; 19 in Kirkcudbrightshire; and 9 in Wigtonshire. [5] The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland records 49 stone circles in the region. Of these 49, 24 are listed as 'possible'; one is an 18th-century construction; and a number have ...
Stone circles in Scotland, circular alignments of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain , and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC.
Great Crowns of Stone: The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland. Edinburgh: RCAHMS. ISBN 978-1-902419-55-8. Welfare, Adam (2011a). Halliday, Stratford (ed.). Great Crowns of Stone: The Recumbent Stone Circles of Scotland Gazetteer and Appendices (PDF). RCAHMS. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 December 2019. – only published online
Pages in category "Lists of stone circles in Scotland" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... List of stone circles in Dumfries and Galloway; R.
Ninestane Rig (English: Nine Stone Ridge) is a small stone circle in Scotland near the English border. Located in Roxburghshire , near to Hermitage Castle , it was probably made between 2000 BC and 1250 BC, during the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (Bronze Age technology reached the Borders around 1750 BC). [ 1 ]
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Over seventy of these circles are found in lowland Aberdeenshire in northeast Scotland – the most similar monuments are the axial stone circles of southwest Ireland. Recumbent stone circles generally enclosed a low ring cairn, though over the millennia these have often disappeared. [2] They may have been a development from the Clava cairns ...