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Photo Pages: Bogleys - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by Nick on Wednesday, 10 November 2004 Page Views: 4123
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Re: Bogleys (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Wednesday, 25 August 2004 | | Bogleys stone has been removed for safe keeping as it is in the area of Kingslaw OCCS. 24/08/04 | [ Reply to This ]
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by Anonymous on Wednesday, 10 November 2004 | News story from Fife Now 09/11/2004:
Four human cremation burial plots have been uncovered at the Kingslaw opencast site on the outskirts of Kirkcaldy. And it is understood they form part of complex religious ceremonies carried out by settlers thousands of years ago. The discovery was made by Fife Council archaeologists as they removed the 4000-year-old Bogleys Standing Stone from the Kingslaw development, which is currently being mined by Lanarkshire-based GM Mining, before being turned into a business and leisure facility.
Moving and protecting the ancient Bronze Age stone was part of an archaeological condition laid down before planning permission was given.
Fife Council archaeologist Douglas Speirs told The Press: "The Bogleys Stone was probably erected about 4,000 years ago.
"It is the last visible vestige of what must have been a highly charged area of ritual landscape.
"The stone is massive, standing some seven feet above ground and weighing more than five tons.
"Clearly the extraordinary degree of effort that went into moving and erecting this stone demonstrates the intensity of meaning that this site had to the Bronze inhabitants of central Fife.
"Exactly how the stone was used is not entirely clear, but archaeological excavations have shown that complex religious ceremonies, including the symbolic burial of human remains around the stone was practised. "Indeed, four human cremation burials were found radiating out around the stone."
Samples from the excavation have now been sent to a university in Holland for carbon dating to establish when the cremations took place.
The full archaeological rescue package was put together by Fife Council and GM Mining, who paid for all the rescue works.
Mr Sinclair added: "Having now lifted the stone, we know that nothing actually lies underneath it. The likelihood is that it marked the general focus of a prehistoric ritual site rather than actually sitting on top of some specific deposit.
"There is a strong tradition that the stone was lifted and examined some time in the 1840s by local antiquarians who believed that the stone marked the spot of a great Viking chief killed in battle many centuries before.
"The size of the stone makes it unlikely that it was actually lifted, but it is not impossible that inquisitive antiquarians might have dug around it to see what they could find.
"Fortunately, the stone is sitting in a secure solid stone socket cut directly in the underlying solid geology and the excavations showed that the archaeological deposits around the stone had not been substantially disturbed."
After a complex engineering operation the stone was removed and is currently in storage. It is due to be returned to the site in three years time when the coal extraction is complete.
It is planned to re-erect the stone as close to its original position as possible along with a plaque explaining its history stone and its excavation.
Source: Fife Now 09/11/2004
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Re: Bogleys (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Monday, 03 December 2007 | Another case of wanton vandalism by Fife council, this stone was known as the SLEEPING WARRIOR AND LOCAL BELIEF WAS THAT TO SCRATCH THE STONE DURING THE FULL MOON WOULD RESULT IN THE STONE BLEEDING, THIS PROBABLY REFERS TO THE BLOOD RITUALS AND CREMATIONS CARRIED OUT ON THE SITE, Douglas Spiers should be dismissed and greater protection afforded to our ancient monuments, no doubt this stone will never be re erected as the proposed shopping development was a ruse to allow extraction of top grade coal.No other local authority would allow heavy mining works so near a community.Residents of the boreland endured noise, dust and disruption for several years.As for mr Spiers according to him the Picts were of welsh origin ?
Need I say anymore?
Roy Pettigrew roypettigr@hotmail.com | [ Reply to This ]
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