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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]
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.
This is a list of stone circles located in the Dumfries and Galloway council area. It is compiled from Aubrey Burl 's 'County Gazetteer of the Stone Circles in Britain, Ireland and Brittany' [ 1 ] and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland 's 'Canmore' database. [ 2 ]
Boscawen-Un – Stone circle with a leaning pillar in its interior. Boskednan – a partially restored stone circle near Boskednan, around 6 kilometres (4 miles) northwest of the town of Penzance. Craddock Moor – near Minions on Bodmin Moor, 800 m (1 ⁄ 2 mi) northwest of The Hurlers. Duloe – in the village of Duloe, 8 km (5 mi) from Looe.
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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]
The stone circles were recorded in 1861 by James Bryce, and numbered 1 to 5. [5] Five other monuments in the area were numbered 6 to 10, and when subsequently a further stone circle was discovered almost completely submerged in peat in 1978, it was numbered Machrie Moor 11. [5] Around 1 kilometer to the west is the remains of the Moss Farm Road ...