Steeps Park, High Gillespie
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Steeps Park, High Gillespie
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Gillespie; Culquhasen
Canmore ID 62274
Site Number NX25SW 42
NGR NX 248 531
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Old Luce
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX25SW 42 248 531
In 1877 two large granite boulders stood in a field called Steeps Park at High Gillespie (NX 253 528). An old local informant said that there were formerly nine or ten of them in a circle, but in 1817, all but two were removed for building, and the last two were later moved to the field wall, out of the way of the plough. The site was near an old road running across Culquharen.
G Wilson 1899
High Gillespie is now a ruin and its land forms part of Gillespie Farm. The name Steeps Park is not known nor is there any knowledge of the stone circle or the whereabouts of the last two stones. Culquhasen is at NX 240 535 and it is probable that this site lay somewhere in the area NX 247 530.
Visited by OS (JP), 30 June 1976
At NX 248 531 are two rounded boulders, lying against the field dyke 300 yds N by E of the 'Black Cairn' (NX25SW 20). They are about 2ft 6ins to 2ft 9ins each way and 1ft thick, and may well be the two described by Wilson.
J Murray 1981.
