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Photo Pages: Balbirnie - Stone Circle in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by Nick on Tuesday, 05 November 2002 Page Views: 5767
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 Site Name: Balbirnie Alternative Name: Druid's Circle
Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Glenrothes Nearest Village: Markinch
Map Ref: NO285029 Landranger Map Number: 59
Latitude: 56.213285N Longitude: 3.154366W
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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Stone Circle in Fife
From the A92 running north from Glenrothes, turn east onto the un-numbered road for Star and Kennoway. 100m along this road is a sign for the Balbirnie housing development, turn in here and about 150m/200m along, where the road curves right, you will see the circle just below you. Park up in the housing development itself and walk back.
The site itself dates from c3000 B.C., and used to be located 125m to the north west of where it stands at present. It was always known locally as the "Druid's Circle", and had to be relocated when the A92 was widened. It was excavated during 1970-71 by Historic Scotland, and there is a good information board at the site.
Ten stones stood here originally, of which eight are left. Later in its history, some burials took place within the circle, and one of the burial cists has a stone marked with cup and cup-and-ring marks (now replaced with a concrete replica). Several finds were made during excavations, amongst them being cremated bones, a beaker, a flint knife and a jet button. All of these are now in the Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh. A fine site, and well worth a visit.
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 Balbirnie submitted by hamish
A cist on the edge of the central paved area.
 Balbirnie submitted by hamish
It wasn't very easy to read in reality.
 Balbirnie submitted by hamish
The rather weathered information board.
 Balbirnie submitted by hamish
The middle paved area.
 Balbirnie submitted by hamish
The large stones at Balbirnie with one of the cists in the middle.
 Balbirnie submitted by hamish
It is nice to find a reconstructed circle pretty well unmolested in the middle of a housing estate. This is only a couple of hundred mtrs from its original site. People seem to go past without seeing it. Long may it last.
 Balbirnie submitted by Unknown
 Balbirnie from North submitted by Unknown
 Balbirnie submitted by Nick
Close-up of marked slab in one of the burial sites
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Re: Balbirnie (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Thursday, 05 July 2007 | my parents worked on this excavation.
the part about all artefacts are now in a museum is not strictly true. for years we had the cremated remains in a small box in my bedroom. these remains have since been
re interred at the original site.
may he / she rest in peace.
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