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Braes of Fowlis Stone Circles

Stone Circle

Folklore

Grinsell notes that just west of the stone circles used to be the Moor of Ardoch Sithean. A sithean is a fairy knowe, or cairn. Clearly the fairies didn't hold much fear for the people who destroyed it.

(mentioned in Grinsell's 'Folklore of Prehistoric Sites in Britain')
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
27th May 2004ce
Edited 23rd June 2004ce

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