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<b>Fife</b>Posted by nickbrandCollessie © nickbrand
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Ardross Souterrain
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Balbirnie Stone Circle
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Balfarg Circle henge
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Balfarg Riding School Henge
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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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Black Cairn Hillfort
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Black Laws Cairn(s)
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Boarhills Standing Stone / Menhir
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Bogleys Standing Stone / Menhir
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Bowden Hill Hillfort
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Camp Wood Hillfort
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Castleton Standing Stone / Menhir
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Clatchchard Craig Hillfort
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Collessie Standing Stone / Menhir
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Collessie Farm Cairn(s)
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Coultra Hill Cairn(s)
Craigluscar Hillfort
20 posts
Creich Manse Stone Circle
Cult Hill Hillfort
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Darnbogue Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art
9 posts
Devil's Blue Stane Natural Rock Feature
13 posts
Down Law Hillfort
11 posts
Drumcarrow Craig Broch
28 posts
Dunino Den Sacred Well
14 posts
Earlseat Standing Stone / Menhir
5 posts
Easter Nether Urquhart Cairn(s)
7 posts
Easter Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir
19 posts
East Lomond Hillfort
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East Lomond Cairn(s)
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Gallowstone Cairn(s)
6 posts
Glassmount Standing Stones
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Glenduckie Hillfort
11 posts
Green Craig Hillfort
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Green Hill Cairn(s)
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Lady Mary's Wood Hillfort
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Law Head Cairn(s)
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Lundin Links Standing Stones
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Macduff's Cross Standing Stone / Menhir
14 posts
Maiden Castle (Lomonds) Hillfort
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Morton Lochs Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
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Newton Of Balbirnie Hillfort
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Norman's Law Hillfort
14 posts
Norrie's Law Cairn(s)
North Wood Cairn(s)
16 posts
Orwell Standing Stones
6 posts
Pinnelhill Standing Stone / Menhir
8 posts
Pitcairn Cairn(s)
9 posts
Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir
6 posts
Purin Hillfort
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Saline Hill Hillfort
8 posts
Skeith Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
11 posts
Strathendry Standing Stone / Menhir
8 posts
St Margarets Stone Standing Stone / Menhir
40 posts
Tuilyies Standing Stones
11 posts
Wemyss Caves - The Court Cave Cave / Rock Shelter
19 posts
West Lomond Hill Cairn(s)
7 posts
West Pitcorthie Standing Stone / Menhir
Sites of disputed antiquity:
5 posts
Markinch Hill Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
2 posts
Standing Stane Road Standing Stone / Menhir

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Neolithic Pottery And Flint Tools Found In Fife

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-38554521
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
9th January 2017ce

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

Latest posts for Fife

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Collessie Farm (Cairn(s)) — Images (click to view fullsize)

<b>Collessie Farm</b>Posted by Rhiannon<b>Collessie Farm</b>Posted by Rhiannon<b>Collessie Farm</b>Posted by Rhiannon Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
28th January 2021ce

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

Court Cave on BRAC Updated


There are photos of Glass Cave and Jonathan's Cave in adjacent pages.
Posted by markj99
9th January 2021ce

Binn (Cup and Ring Marks / Rock Art) — Links

Binn on BRAC Updated


Binn on BRAC
Posted by markj99
4th January 2021ce

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

Macduff's Cross on BRAC Updated


Macduff's Cross on BRAC
Posted by markj99
4th January 2021ce

Dunino Den (Sacred Well) — Images

<b>Dunino Den</b>Posted by Lichtiethe36<b>Dunino Den</b>Posted by Lichtiethe36 Posted by Lichtiethe36
21st August 2020ce

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

The ancient symbols hidden in a cave


Latest news on the protection of these caves.
moss Posted by moss
3rd December 2018ce

Balfarg (Circle henge) — Folklore

An Historical Sketch of Markinch.

Boulder Stones.

About five hundred yards west from the farm of Balfarg, which is situated about one mile from Markinch, are two large stones, one about six feet in height and the other a little less.

According to legendary lore they are two 'tackets' which have fallen from the boots of a great giant who had been taking a quiet walk in that part of the district.

Another version is that the devil was carrying a quantity of stones in his apron when one of the strings broke, thus scattering his load on the ground. He picked them all up except two of the smallest, which he thought he would leave to puzzle the brain of geologists and antiquarians. Kind old gentleman!

Some folks suppose they are two Druidical stones but we think that they are two stones of the Siberian strata, which lies below the old red sandstone. In many parts they lie above the lighter limestone formation which, according to geology, ought to be the uppermost of the two. The explanation which science gives regarding the boulder stones is that they have been deposited there by icebergs or glaciers.
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.
Rhiannon Posted by Rhiannon
4th October 2018ce
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