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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 |
4 posts
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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Glassmount Standing Stones |
Law Head
Cairn(s)
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Lundin Links Standing Stones |
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Macduff's Cross Standing Stone / Menhir |
3 posts
Morton Lochs Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork |
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Norman's Law Hillfort |
7 posts
Norrie's Law Cairn(s) |
North Wood
Cairn(s)
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7 posts
Orwell Standing Stones |
6 posts
Pinnelhill Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir |
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8 posts
Skeith Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
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The Standard Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
5 posts
Strathendry Standing Stone / Menhir |
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8 posts
St Margarets Stone Standing Stone / Menhir |
26 posts
Tuilyies Standing Stones |
6 posts
Wemyss Caves - The Court Cave Cave / Rock Shelter |
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7 posts
West Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir |
Sites of disputed antiquity:
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8 posts
Devil's Blue Stane Standing Stone / Menhir |
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Carpow Log-boat Exhibition OpensThe 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... |
Posted by Rhiannon6th April 2007ce |
Update on Fife Axe CaseCriminal 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... |
Posted by Rhiannon 23rd April 2004ce Edited 23rd April 2004ce |
Update on Iron Age Warriorhttp://heritage.scotsman.com/cfm/heritagenews/headlines_specific... continues... |
Posted by nickbrand19th April 2004ce |
Stone the Crows... Dig Uncovers a Humble PatioArchaeologists 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... |
Posted by nickbrand 9th January 2004ce Edited 9th January 2004ce |
Double Stone Age find in Fifehttp://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... |
Posted by nickbrand 17th July 2003ce Edited 17th July 2003ce |
Ancient carvings could be national treasurehttp://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... |
Posted by nickbrand 11th July 2003ce |
Iron Age Warrior Grave found in ClackmannanshireScottish 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... |
Posted by Rhiannon 11th March 2003ce |
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The Jaggy Thistle: Were inhabitants of Fife once human?Haw Haw Haw! |
Posted by nickbrand 27th July 2003ce Edited 27th July 2003ce |
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St Margarets Stone (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Folklore |
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"The large stone here is associated with St Margaret and was visited by women who hoped to concieve or sought a successful birth. The eight-foot high stone is said to mark the resting place of St Margaret when she journeyed between Queensferry and Dunfermline. Margaret had eight successful pregnancies and probably needed to rest quite a few times on her travels!" Places Of Interest. Joyce Miller. |
Posted by drewbhoy17th November 2009ce |
Lundin Links (Standing Stones) — Folklore |
Various have been the conjectures as to the origin of the erection of the [stones]; they are commonly known by the name of the Standing Stanes of Lundy, a seat belonging to a very old family of the name of Lundin, now to Sir William Erskine, near Largo in Fife.From a clearly irritated correspondent in the Edinburgh Magazine of November 1785 (p324). |
Posted by Rhiannon 24th March 2009ce |
Bogleys (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Links |
Stone PagesNews item from October 2004 |
Posted by Trajan 23rd October 2008ce |
Lundin Links (Standing Stones) — Images (click to view fullsize) |
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Posted by Trajan 23rd October 2008ce |
Bogleys (Standing Stone / Menhir) — Fieldnotes |
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I got a prompt reply from Douglas Speirs at Fife Council, enclosing a very informative update note which he had prepared, of which the following is a slightly edited version. "The Bogleys Stone was a standing stone of Bronze Age date (c. 4,000 years old) that formerly stood in a field (NT 2950 9504) to the west of the A921 Kirkcaldy to Glenrothes road. It was the only upstanding element of what was believed was once a probable Bronze Age megalithic site. This standing stone is also known locally as the Sleeping Warrior, the Warrior's Grave, and the Dysart Standing Stone. For management purposes and to avoid the confusion caused through the use of different names, the site is identified in the Fife Sites and Monuments Record (FSMR) by the unique monument reference number: FF2948, but for ease, it is referred to as the Bogleys Stone because after its proximity to Bogleys Farm. In 1998, a proposal to extract coal on the site occupied by the stone was submitted. This was a complex application and involved the extraction of coal over a four year period followed by the subsequent restoration and re-development of the entire area. Prior to the determination of the application, the Council required the applicant, GM Mining, to submit an Environmental Assessment. As part of this Environmental Assessment, a desk-based archaeological assessment and field survey was conducted. Of eleven archaeological sites identified within the study area (Data Structure Report: Bogleys Farm, Kirkcaldy: Kirkcaldy and Dysart Parish, Desk-based Assessment and Field Survey, McGill, C. CFA Ltd, 1998), only the Bogleys Standing Stone was deemed by Fife Council to merit detailed examination and recording by means of archaeological investigation. Consequently, when consent to extract coal was granted, an archaeological condition was attached to the grant of consent which required the developer to engage the services of a professional archaeological contractor to expose, fully excavate and to record the archaeological deposits around and below the standing stone. The Excavation The need for this site to be excavated was prompted by the recognition of three facts: that the Bogleys standing stone potentially represented a larger, and possibly nationally important, prehistoric site; that the site would be completely destroyed by open-cast mining; and that there was no possibility of in-situ preservation. A programme of open area excavation incorporating an area of more than 400m2 around the standing stone was duly implemented in August, 2004. The excavation revealed that the stone stood within socket, 0.7 x 0.6m, which has been cut into the underlying solid sandstone bedrock to a depth of 0.9m. A pit containing cremated human bone was uncovered immediately adjacent to the stone whilst four further truncated (damaged) cremation pits were found c.20m to the NE of the stone, each containing burnt human bone and charcoal. Two further smaller pits were excavated and may represent the footings for an A-frame or similar engineering structure used to erect the stone. Ploughing had damaged the site but the excavation revealed that the stone had not previously been moved as had been suggested. Indeed, the stone had previously been rejected by Historic Scotland for scheduling as local accounts suggested that 19th century antiquarian investigations had excavated and possibly moved the stone, thus comprising the archaeological integrity of the site. Excavation proved that this had not happened and the site, although damaged by ploughing, was intact. A full account of the excavation of this site will be published in the Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal later this year but suffice to say the excavations revealed that the Bogleys Stone is Bronze Age in date and based on revolutionary new radiocarbon dating techniques, was erected about 4,000 years ago (dates derived from cremated human bone samples dated by accelerator mass spectroscopy radiocarbon dating at The Center for Isotope Research in Gronningen, Netherlands). The stone is the last visible vestige of what must have been a highly charged area of ritual landscape that was a centre of prehistoric ritual activity in central Fife for over 1,000 years. The stone is massive, standing some 2m above ground and weighing more than 5 tons. Clearly the extraordinary degree of effort that went into moving and erecting this stone demonstrates the intensity of meaning that this site had to the Bronze inhabitants of central Fife. Exactly how the stone was used is not entirely clear, but archaeological excavations have shown that complex religious ceremonies, including the symbolic ritual burial of cremated human remains around the stone, were practised. The excavation process involved the complete removal of the stone. It was lifted and has been stored on pallets within a secure area within the development site since its excavation. However, as GM Mining is now in the final phases of site restoration and is due to leave the site for good in the next few months, the Council's Archaeological Unit is in the process of arranging to have the stone uplifted and removed to for safe storage at the Council's Roads Depot in Thornton. Moves are afoot to ensure that the redevelopment of the Kingslaw site is accompanied by planning conditions that will ensure that the stone is re-erected as close to its original position as is practicable. However, as the master plan for the site is not yet complete, it is not currently possible to say exactly where the stone will be re-erected and how it will relate to the new built environment around it. But it will be sensitively re-erected in a setting that will enable easy public access and interpretation." |
Posted by Trajan 22nd October 2008ce |
| The stone has still not been returned to its site. The open-cast area has been restored to rough grazing (two deer there on my visit), but the industrial estate has not been developed. I will ask the council archaeologist for an update and will post again if I learn anything new. |
Posted by Trajan 20th October 2008ce |
Binn (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Links |
Binn on BRAC |
Posted by rockartuk6th September 2008ce |
Tuilyies (Standing Stones) — Fieldnotes |
| You cannot miss these. There is a layby and if you don't mind clambering over barbed wire it is easy to access. Lovely stones , possibly a four poster with an outlier although a stone would be missing. |
Posted by hamish30th June 2008ce |
Tuilyies (Standing Stones) — Images |
 
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Posted by hamish 30th June 2008ce |
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