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Kirkgunzeon
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Kirkgunzeon
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 64940
Site Number NX86NE 7
NGR NX 8657 6668
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64940
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkgunzeon
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX86NE 7 8657 6668.
A stone circle near Kirkgunzeon manse was destroyed between 1790 and 1870. (Information from J Gillespie)
F R Coles 1895
According to Mrs J Moffat (The Shop, Kirkgunzeon), the oldest inhabitant in the village, a circle of stones c.30 ft in diameter with a small mound in the centre stood on flat ground at NX 8657 6668. Over the years successive farmers have removed the larger stones and now only the slight mound, c.4.0 m diam. x 0.3 m high, with several clearance stones on top, survives to mark the site of the stone circle.
Visited by OS (RD) 8 July 1969
