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<< Our Photo Pages >> Balkemback - Stone Circle in Scotland in Angus

Submitted by Nick on Monday, 11 November 2002  Page Views: 13208

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Balkemback Alternative Name: Balluderon
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Angus Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Dundee  Nearest Village: Kirkton of Auchterhouse
Map Ref: NO382384  Landranger Map Number: 54
Latitude: 56.533534N  Longitude: 3.006377W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 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
4

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Balkemback
Balkemback submitted by Nick : Looking north east (Vote or comment on this photo)
Remains of a Stone Circle in a field just outside Auchterhouse. The site has an irregular setting of four stones, two fallen, which form a circle approximately 11m in diameter.

The tallest stone is the south-eastern one, standing just over 1m in height, but the fallen south-western stone is 1.5m in length. The south-eastern stone has cup and cup-and-ring markings on the broad east and west faces

Canmore site no. 31853.
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Balkemback
Balkemback submitted by Alta-Falisa : Standing Stones A small group of standing stones in a field just outside Auchterhouse. Reaching these stones was quite tricky. The map showed them in the field just off the main road but we still had to climb over four barbed wire fences and through a marshy bog just to get there and back. Although I dont know anything about the history of these stones, one stone had some interesting ci... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Balkemback
Balkemback submitted by durhamnature : Cup marks on one of the stones, from "Journal of British Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Balkemback submitted by durhamnature (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Balkemback submitted by durhamnature : Plan of the Stones, from "Journal of British Archaeology" via archive.org (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Balkemback submitted by cosmic : Balkemback in Angus is a ruined but recognisable circle with two stones standing and two others fallen. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Balkemback submitted by cosmic

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Balkemback submitted by cosmic

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Balkemback submitted by Nick : Take the A929 north out of Dundee to Tealing. Follow the road due west past Balkemback farm on the left, until you see a house in a stand of trees on the right. Park just past this, and the circle is in the second field north. The site is described as an irregular setting of four stones, two fallen. They form a circle approximately 11m in diameter. The tallest stone is the south-eastern one, s...

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