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Blairbuy

Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Blairbuy

Classification Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 62753

Site Number NX34SE 11

NGR NX 3617 4159

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Glasserton
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX34SE 11 3617 4159.

(NX 3617 4159) Standing Stones (NR) (2 shown)

OS 6" map (1957)

Stone Circle (remains of), Blairbuy: Two small pointed stones stand E-W of each other, a few feet apart, on the face of a slope c.1/4 mile SE of the "Wren's Egg" (NX34SE 10).

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911

The two stones are as described. They cannot be identified as forming part of a stone circle.

Visited by OS (IA) 30 January 1973

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Field Visit (6 July 1911)

Stone Circle (remains of), Blairbuy.

On the face of a slope about ¼ m. S. by E. of the" Wren's Egg," and to the W. of the S. end of Blairbuy Loch, stand other two small pointed stones E. and W. of each other and a few feet apart.

O.S.M., WIGTOWN, xxx. S.E.

Visited 6th July 1911

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