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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Thieves Alternative Name: Blair HillCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Newton Stewart Nearest Village: Minnigaff
Map Ref: NX4044071597 Landranger Map Number: 77
Latitude: 55.013262N Longitude: 4.496904W
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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markj99 visited on 7th May 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 2 There is such a wealth of ancient sites on Drennandow Moor, however The Thieves Standing Stone are the best site to my eyes. I feel a magnetic attraction to Standing Stones generally so a pair of six footers are irresistible.
Two stones stand and one is prostrate within an elliptical bank, possibly the remains of a stone circle also known as Blair Hill. Thom calculated that there was a precision lunar alignment at this site.
For more information about these prehistoric standing stones see Canmore site no. 63579, which tells us: "one (stone is) 6ft 8ins and the other 7ft 4ins in height, 14ft 6ins apart with the edge of a broken thin slab 3ft 9ins long protruding through the turf between and a little SE of them. The stones stand in the SE quadrant of an oval enclosure formed by a low rubble wall and measuring axially 30ft by 26ft."
The entry goes onto quote from an 1896 source: "The Thieves' Stones are traditionally said to take their name from the fact that several free-booters were executed at them in the 14th century" and adds that the enclosure they stand in is modern.
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