Glenquicken Moor
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Glenquicken Moor
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 63669
Site Number NX55NW 12
NGR NX 5074 5833
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63669
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX55NW 12 5074 5833.
(NX 5074 5833) Druidical Circle (NR) (Supposed)
OS 6" map (1853)
Coles could find no trace of this feature, described in 1850 as 8 granite stones, standing 2 yds apart, forming a circle 60 links (39.6ft) in diameter, with another in the centre. The stones composing the circle weighed from 1-3 cwt while the central one was about 5 cwt. (c/f NX55NW 1, NX55NW 5, NX55NW 7 ).
Name Book 1850; F R Coles 1895
There is no trace of this stone circle.
Visited by OS (DWR) 24 February 1972
