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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Marchwell (Glencourse) Alternative Name: Rullion Green (Glencorse)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.896 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Midlothian Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Penicuik
Map Ref: NT22646211 Landranger Map Number: 66
Latitude: 55.845971N Longitude: 3.237045W
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | No data. |
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 |
0 | no data |
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Stone Circle in Mid Lothian
This now destroyed stone circle is recorded as Canmore ID 51863. The first entry in their record reads: "The remains of a circle, forty feet in diameter and composed of large stones, set close together, could be seen, in 1843, close by the road near Marchwell. They had lately been broken and removed for the construction of a wall which runs through the middle of the site. In 1927 the Commission found only two stones in situ, both about 15 ins high. Five similar blocks lay nearby: all seven, of a basaltic stone, seemed to have been brought from a distance."
By 1988, this had been updated to say: "Nothing is visible of this stone circle, which stood on a low knoll 250m NE of Marchwell. The food vessel fragments probably came from the slit trench that is visible on the summit of the knoll."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this stone circle - see their entry for Marchwell, Glencorse, Midlothian, which includes the site of the circle shown on the 1854 OS map. TNA adds: "It was to be seen “on the right hand side of the main roadway from Edinburgh to Carlops, as it approaches the farm of Marchwell."
Note: TNA asks if anyone has any early drawings, photographs or images of this once fine megalithic ring - please get in contact!
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