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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Balgrummo
Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Kennoway  Nearest Village: Bonnybank
Map Ref: NO375029  Landranger Map Number: 59
Latitude: 56.214554N  Longitude: 3.009289W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 3

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Balgrummo submitted by Nick : NO375029 Just off the B927 leading north out of Scoonie (Leven) is the track to Balgrummo Farm. The stone stands in a field a couple of hundred metres up this track. There is an area where you can safely park by a small stand of trees, so the track is not blocked. This stone is a slab of red sandstone, around 4-1/2 feet tall, and lies on a NNW-SSE axis. It was apparently dislodged by ploughi... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Balgrummo by Anonymous on Friday, 10 January 2020
I visited the Balgrummo Stone today Friday 10 January 2020. It is no longer standing but is lying flat fully out of its socket.
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    Re: Balgrummo by Anonymous on Friday, 24 January 2020
    Same. Hopefully it will get upright soon by someone. Should the museum know about it?
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      Re: Balgrummo by Anonymous on Monday, 23 March 2020
      Saturday 21 March 2020



      Hooray, its back up again
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Re: Balgrummo by Andy B on Friday, 05 February 2016
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Time Team excavated a Bronze Age cemetary near here in 2003:

http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146410680
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411543

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/time-team/on-demand/33104-010

"A building development threatens a Bronze Age cemetery in Fife, and Time Team is there to carry out rescue excavations together with county archaeologists. The graves are cist burials in various states of preservation placed around a large boulder in a dug pit. The boulder is shown to cover another cist, and several of the burials contain in fact bones - not a certainty, given the acidity of the local soil - and grave goods. With skulls initially being found as the only form of human remains, the archaeologists wonder whether the site only contained skulls originally. The boulder cist is capped by a large stone slab covering a void beneath, and the logistics of lifting it prove a challenge. In the end they uncover a chamber with skeletal remains, thus showing soil acidity to be the main culprit for the dearth of bones other than skulls in the other graves. Archaeological or historical period(s): Bronze Age."

Series 10, Episode 10
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Team_%28series_10%29
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