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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Lundin Links Alternative Name: Standing Stones of Lundin; Standing Stanes of Lundy; Lundie StonesCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.04 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Fife Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Glenrothes Nearest Village: Lundin
Map Ref: NO40480272
Latitude: 56.213320N Longitude: 2.961209W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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ModernExplorers visited on 3rd Mar 2013 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 3 A surreal setting with golf balls flying passed your face
Bladup hamish have visited here
100 by 30 feet. The NNW stone is 17 feet tall, the SSW 15 feet, the SSE 14 feet tall, but 7 feet broad. Thom calculated two possible alignments: one SSW to Comrie Hill and minor S moonset, the other SSE to the minor S moonrise behind Bass Rock.
Graham writes: As you drive into Lundin Links in Fife you can catch a glimpse of these tall pillars from the road between houses on the edge of the golf course. They are on the Ladies Golf Course and further down the road is the entrance where you can ask permission to visit the site. Three tall sandstone pillars remain of the original four in the middle of the golf course.
Nick writes: Take the A915 east from Leven until you enter Lundin Links. A left turn into Woodielea Road takes you to the golf course. Park there and ask permission to view the stones (readily granted). They lie on the third fairway, about 600 metres in. These three pillars of coarse red sandstone are 3 corners of a rectangle roughly 30m by 10m.
The NNE stone is missing, although it lay by its stump in 1792, broken by treasure hunters. The NNW stone is 5.1m tall, the SSW 4.6m and the SSE is 4.2m by 2m broad. An eighteenth century excavation found cists, bones, and possibly a jet button (now lost). These stones appear to be an exaggerated form of four-poster, normally more common in Perthshire.
For more information see Canmore ID 32656 which includes details of a skull taken from a 'coffin built of loose slabs' in 1844.
Also see The Northern Antiquarian's entry for Lundin Links, Largo, Fife, which gives directions for finding this site, together with photographs, an image of the 1855 OS map showing the location of the stones, and a brief archaeology & history. TNA adds: "If you like your megaliths and you venture anywhere near here, make sure you come and visit these stones. They’ll blow you away! The only downfall we have is their location—stuck on the golf course; which, of course, means that meditating here is only possible between sunfall and sunrise (though I’ve usually found that’s the best time to be at stone circles anyway!), or perhaps in the pouring rain. Whichever is your preference, these stones need looking at!" The Journal of Antiquities also includes an entry for the Lundin Links Standing Stones, Fife, Scotland, which includes directions for finding these stones ("you will need to ask for permission to visit" as they are on the golf course), a description, a drawing and a list of reference sources for more information.
Page originally by Tom Bullock
Note: Autumn Equinox sunrise at Lundin Links!
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