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Photo Pages: Tuilyies - Standing Stones in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by enkidu41 on Sunday, 14 March 2004 Page Views: 4518
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 Site Name: Tuilyies Alternative Name: Torryburn
Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Dunfermline Nearest Village: Tuilyies
Map Ref: NT02918658 Landranger Map Number: 65
Latitude: 56.062175N Longitude: 3.560845W
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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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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Stone setting in Fife. This unusual group of 4 stones comprises an 8' high cup marked stone and 3 boulders. The E face of the standing stone is covered with vertical grooves due to weathering and, at its the lower end, many cup marks. The other 3 stones due S of the standing stone are unmarked boulders forming a triangle with sides 12', 15' and 16'. The four stones do not form a circle but there is little doubt that they are the remains of a Bronze Age sacred site.
The name "Tuilyies" is a corruption of the Scottish word "tulzie" signifying a fight. The stones are said to mark the graves of cheiftains who died here in an alleged battle.
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 Tuilyies submitted by hamish
The whole set of stones looking north.
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The larger of the trio looking north.
 Tuilyies submitted by hamish
The larger of the trio looking south.
 Tuilyies submitted by hamish
The two smaller stones of the trio looking east.
 Tuilyies submitted by hamish
This is the trio of stones looking south.
 Tuilyies submitted by hamish
This is the grooved stone edge on looking north.
 Tuilyies submitted by hamish
This is the grooved stone looking west. Quite easy to access, just beware of barbed wire at crotch height.
 Tuilyies submitted by cosmic
Viewed from West
 Tuilyies submitted by cosmic
Trio from West
 Tuilyies submitted by cosmic
The standing stone with the 3-stone setting behind.
 Tuilyies submitted by cosmic
The 3-stone setting from the East.
This group of three stones lies just South of the Standing Stone. It has been suggested that the whole group is the remains of a circle but the trio are of a different type of stone from the standing stone and the tallest stone would be in the North part of the circle so unlikely.
 Tuilyies submitted by Nick
An unusual group, one large single, with vertical gouges on both flat faces, plus several cup-marks, and a group of three.
NT029866
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Re: Tuilyies (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, 14 March 2004 | Condition:
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Woah! tuilyies is in Fife, not Argyll.
Pass this site going to work, must stop to take a pic.
Cheers.
Bill Mackenzie | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Tuilyies (Score: 1)
by electric_monk on Thursday, 07 October 2004
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I too drive by this one every day on the way to work (live in Fife, work in Glasgow), you can see it on the road as you drive by, I only noticed it for the first time a few weeks ago! It has a small layby "parking" area right at that point in the road, it's in a field which I believe contains sheep. But even just driving by gives you a nice view of a stone, and if you look carefully you can see the others nearby. I must go up specifically and have a look one day :) | [ Reply to This ]
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