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Photo Pages: Balfarg - Henge in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by Nick on Friday, 05 December 2003 Page Views: 5322
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 Site Name: Balfarg Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Henge
Nearest Town: Glenrothes Nearest Village: Markinch
Map Ref: NO281032 Landranger Map Number: 59
Latitude: 56.215920N Longitude: 3.160895W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Henge in Fife
From the A92 at the north end of Glenrothes turn onto the B969, and proceed to the first roundabout (marked with a modern stone circle!). Turn left here, and then about 100 metres in turn right into Henge Crescent. You'll see it straight away. A large board gives some information about the site. There are only two stones remaining, one at the entrance and one which had been part of the circle, but the massive ditch is very obvious. It was excavated in 1977 prior to the construction of the housing estate which surrounds it. The central area of the great circle is some 65m across. Timber posts mark the position of an original timber ring. Well worth a look!
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 Balfarg from East submitted by Unknown
 Balfarg from SE submitted by Unknown
 Balfarg submitted by cosmic
Balfarg, Fife at NO 281032
From Cosmic
Balfarg is a henge which was excavated when a housing estate was built round it in the 1970's. There are only two standing stones but post holes found inside the henge have been marked with a set of wooden posts.
Surprisingly only one part of the henge ditch seems to have been subject to vandalism (by bikes?)
 Balfarg submitted by Nick
Looking west across the henge
 Balfarg submitted by Nick
From the A92 at the north end of Glenrothes turn onto the B969, and proceed to the first roundabout (marked with a modern stone circle!). Turn left here, and then about 100 metres in turn right into Henge Crescent. You'll see it straight away. A large board gives some information about the site. There are only two stones remaining, one at the entrance and one which had been part of the circle,
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