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Balbirnie Stone Circle
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Balfarg Henge
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Balfarg Riding School Enclosure
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Balgrummo Standing Stone / Menhir
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Bandrum Standing Stones
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Battle Law Cup Marked Stone
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Binn Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art
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Boarhills Standing Stone / Menhir
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Bogleys Standing Stone / Menhir
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Castleton Standing Stone / Menhir
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Collessie Standing Stone / Menhir
Craigluscar Hillfort
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Creich Manse Stone Circle
Cult Hill Hillfort
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Darnbogue Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art
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Drumcarrow Craig Broch
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Dunino Den Sacred Well
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Earlseat Standing Stone / Menhir
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Easter Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir
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East Lomond Hillfort
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Glassmount Standing Stones
Law Head Cairn(s)
30 posts
Lundin Links Standing Stones
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Macduff's Cross Standing Stone / Menhir
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Morton Lochs Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
7 posts
Norman's Law Hillfort
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Norrie's Law Cairn(s)
North Wood Cairn(s)
7 posts
Orwell Standing Stones
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Pinnelhill Standing Stone / Menhir
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Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir
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Skeith Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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The Standard Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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Strathendry Standing Stone / Menhir
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St Margarets Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
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Tuilyies Standing Stones
7 posts
Wemyss Caves - The Court Cave Cave / Rock Shelter
3 posts
West Lomond Hill Cairn(s)
7 posts
West Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir
Sites of disputed antiquity:
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Devil's Blue Stane Standing Stone / Menhir

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Carpow Log-boat Exhibition Opens


The Carpow logboat was discovered in the bed of the River Tay in 2001, and recovered last year. It's the second oldest to be found in Scotland, and dates from the late Bronze Age... continues...
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
6th April 2007ce

Update on Fife Axe Case


Criminal proceedings against Leslie man Michael Kelly, who found a neolithic axe head and initially refused to give it up, have been dropped.

Mr Kelly discovered the 6000-year-old axe head late last year while walking in the Lomond Hills... continues...
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
23rd April 2004ce
Edited 23rd April 2004ce

Update on Iron Age Warrior


http://heritage.scotsman.com/cfm/heritagenews/headlines_specific... continues...
nickbrand Posted by nickbrand
19th April 2004ce

Stone the Crows... Dig Uncovers a Humble Patio


Archaeologists were left red-faced when an excavation site they believed was a Norse settlement of "national significance" was actually a sunken patio. Experts rushed to the site when amateur archaeologists unearthed a meshwork of massive stones while exploring the ground in their garden... continues...
nickbrand Posted by nickbrand
9th January 2004ce
Edited 9th January 2004ce

Double Stone Age find in Fife


http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=776042003

Joy over double Stone Age find in Fife

TWO hugely significant Neolithic finds have been made in Fife within weeks of each other, thanks to sharp-eyed amateur archeologists... continues...
nickbrand Posted by nickbrand
17th July 2003ce
Edited 17th July 2003ce

Ancient carvings could be national treasure


http://www.fifenow.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1015&ArticleID=557553

ANCIENT stone carvings found on Burntisland's Binn Hill have excited major interest among archaeologists... continues...
nickbrand Posted by nickbrand
11th July 2003ce

Iron Age Warrior Grave found in Clackmannanshire


Scottish Herald - Shan Ross
Builders who were on the brink of using a JCB digger to lay the foundations of a new housing estate have unearthed what may be the richest archaeological find in Scotland. It includes the well-preserved skeleton, sword and valuable adornments of an Iron Age warrior buried with full honours... continues...
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
11th March 2003ce

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The Jaggy Thistle: Were inhabitants of Fife once human?


Haw Haw Haw!
nickbrand Posted by nickbrand
27th July 2003ce
Edited 27th July 2003ce

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Norman's Law (Hillfort) — Images (click to view fullsize)

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12th October 2011ce

West Lomond Hill (Cairn(s)) — Images

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16th April 2011ce

East Lomond (Hillfort) — Images

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16th April 2011ce

Wemyss Caves - The Court Cave (Cave / Rock Shelter) — Folklore

King James IV. in a frolick once joined a company of gypsies, who were here making merry, and when the liquor began to operate, the gypsies, as usual with people of their character, began to quarrel among themselves; upon this his Majesty attempted to mediate between the parties, but they, ignorant of the rank of their new associate, were about to handle him pretty roughly for his goodness, which obliged the King to discover himself; in allusion to this affair, the cave was afterwards ironically called the Court Cave.
From the Old Statistical Account for Wemyss parish.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
30th December 2010ce

Macduff's Cross (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Links

Macduff's Cross on BRAC


rockartuk Posted by rockartuk
9th July 2010ce

Macduff's Cross (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore

About three quarters of a mile south-west of Mugdrum cross, are the remains of another celebrated cross, Norman Macduff's cross, on which so much has been written, both in prose and rhyme. It is situated upon the high ground, in an opening of the Ochils which forms a pass from the valley of Strathearn into the central portion of Fife. This cross is said to have been broken in pieces by the Reformers, on their way from Perth to Lindores; and nothing now remains but the large square block of freestone which formed the pedestal. [..] There are several holes or indentations on its different faces, which tradition says were nine in number, and in which nine rings were at one time fixed. [..] It formed a girth or sanctuary for any of the clan Macduff, or any related to the chief within the ninth degree, who had been guilty of "suddand chaudmelle," or unpremeditated slaughter. In consequence of this privilege any person entitled to take advantage of it, and requiring its security, fled to the cross, and laying hold of one of the rings, punishment was remitted on his washing nine times at the stone, and paying nine cows and a colpendach or young cow; the nine cows being fastened to the rings. [...] a powerful spring called the Nine wells, where it is supposed that the ablutions took place, still takes its rise at no great distance from the cross.


[..] It was on all occasions necessary when the privilege of Cross-Macduff was claimed, that proof should be given of consanguinity within the limited degree; and where in any case the claimant failed in establishing his right, he was instantly put to death, and buried near the stone. There were formerly several artificial airns and tumuli around the cross, and one rather larger than the rest about fifty yards to the north, but the progress of agriculture which has brought the ploughshare over the fields around the cross, has now removed all traces of them. [..] "Superstition," says Cant, "forbids the opening of any of them; no person in the neighbourhood will assist for any consideration, nor will any person in or about Newburgh travel that way when dark, for they affirm that spectres and bogies, as they call them, haunt that place."
From 'The topographical, statistical and historical gazetteer of Scotland' v2, published by A Fullarton and Co, 1856.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
6th July 2010ce
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