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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728675

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX98NW 11 9184 8522.

(NX 9184 8522) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map (1900)

An imitation Bronze Age circle built of weathered stones by Captain Riddel who was the owner of Friar's Carse, Dunscore, in the late eighteenth century. (See also NX89NE 23)

Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1948

A bogus stone circle of 38 stones, all standing except three, one of which is in the centre and one just W of the circle. The stones vary in height from 1' to 7'.

Surveyed at 1/2500 scale.

Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975.

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