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Eleven years ago I came here and was caught between dismay 'n disgust and elated giddiness. I really like the henge, I even approve of it's surroundings, should all henges be out in the countryside? I can stand a few getting stranded in suburbia, juxtaposing nicely with our last site of the day. But some knob had lobbed a big blob of yellow paint on the last remaining circle stone, it was still there last week, couldn't the council do something about it? has anyone told them? has anyone told anyone? Still a bit disgusted to tell you the truth. Still like it here though. I once got told off by a crusty lady not to walk on the henge at Thornborough, this one would make her head explode, they've cut car parks into the henges bank all the way round, they put a fence in the ditch by the entrance to stop smaller cyclists wearing it out. There's a boy in the ditch singing to him self whilst hitting his own head with a stick, it wont wear out the henge, it just made me laugh. And there is nearly always someone watching you through a window. Still like it here though. |
Posted by postman25th September 2018ce Edited 27th September 2018ce |
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Like Fitz, I like this site despite the houses being nearby and perhaps that is a good thing as it allows your imagination to take over which is probably the reason the henge was built in the first place. From the A92 take the B969 heading west, then take the first road south, Huntsman's Road, then the first street east, Kilmichael Road and finally the second street heading in a southerly direction fittingly called, 'The Henge'. Visited 30/12/2105. |
Posted by drewbhoy2nd January 2016ce |
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I like this site. Although it was only excavated in 1977 there is continuity here. Not only has the henge been restored but it is also once again the focus for a community. A well kept estate has been built around the henge and manages not to encroach upon it. The space is here, which is surely what a henge is meant to do.....create a space that is different from it's surrounding. The sacred landscape is long gone but the sacred space remains. The people of Glenrothes are fortunate enough to have two beautiful sacred sites, Balfag and Balbirnie. Check the lovely modern megalithic roundabout on the way in from the A92. |
Posted by fitzcoraldo16th February 2003ce Edited 16th February 2003ce |
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I visited this site (and Balbirnie) with a friend, last autumn at dusk, just as the lamp-posts which surround the henge were switched on. The houses have taken most of the horizon and most of the everything from this site - the street has been built so close to the edge of the henge. Defying all are the remaining stones. The complex and very ancient nature of this site is now hard to appreciate as is any kind of feeling. Glenrothes has not been good to it's ancient heritage and what happened here should make us vigilant. |
Posted by winterjc 16th November 2001ce |
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An Historical Sketch of Markinch.From the Fifeshire Advertiser, 29th July 1887. It's quite strange to look at an old map of this area from when it was all farm and fields, and then now with all the houses circling the henge. |
Posted by Rhiannon4th October 2018ce |
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PSAS 111Very long excavation report but contains discusion of position of stone circle. usual plans and photographs. |
Posted by greywether5th December 2003ce |
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Posted by winterjc 11th June 2002ce |
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