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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: High AuchenlarieCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.1 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Gatehouse of Fleet / Carsluith Nearest Village: Kirkdale
Map Ref: NX53955342 Landranger Map Number: 83
Latitude: 54.854200N Longitude: 4.276573W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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Canmore tells us that in 1912: "At this site, there are the remains of a stone circle, associated with the site of a cairn 22' in diameter. Around it ... were eight stones, two of which had fallen, and the two behind the cairn site merely protruded above the ground. Five of these stones lay approximately on the arc of a circle 45' in diameter which would almost pass through the centre of the cairn. The other three stones lay well S of this circle, though two of them are almost on the arc of an outer, concentric circle 20' away - an unusually large distance. The highest stone, E of the centre of the inner circle, was 4'6" high."
By 1972, they record that much of the site has been robbed to built nearby walls, then in a 1994 site visit say: "this site is located in an improved-pasture field about 300m NE of High Auchenlarie farmsteading. It appears to consist of a robbed cairn measuring 13m in diameter and 0.5m in height with a row of three stones running ENE from its N edge and another three stones to the E, forming a rough N to S line."
RCAHMS conclude, however, that the stone setting is "unlikely to be the remains of a stone circle .... the remains (at this site) may simply be of two converging field dykes, almost entirely robbed out."
Ref: Canmore ID 63759
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