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1. Montrose - Monadh Rois

   ... has a number of sites of pre-historic interest including the Stone of Morphie standing stone to the north from the town. The town itself is on the site of an earlier ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Jul 26 2021 - 10:58am

2. Ancient mysteries of Scotland's Kilmartin Glen

   ... most significant archaeological landscapes. Standing stones, stone circles, remarkable carved rock art, cairns, castles and forts, all ... remain a mystery. Around the Celtic world there are many stone monuments and carvings in rock made by people from prehistoric times.  ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Jan 21 2019 - 8:32pm

3. Callanish Stones - Clachan Chalanais

   ... ruined cairn. Callanish III/Cnoc Filibhir Bheag is an eight stone outer ring, and four stone inner with other fallen stones nearby. Callanish IV/Ceann Hulavig is ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Aug 22 2016 - 2:02pm

4. Excavation of 5,000-year-old Neolithic site in Orkney to end next year

   ... the north-west is the Ring of Brodgar, a Neolithic henge and stone circle thought to date between 2500 BC and 2000 BC. Then in 2002 a ... Neolithic buildings as well as decorated masonry, pottery, stone tools, evidence of stone tiled roofing and other artefacts. The ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Mar 7 2023 - 9:40pm

5. The Braaid

   ... age periods and it has been suggested that it stared as a stone circle site. There are the remains of a Celtic Iron Age roundhouse. Later ... the site today you can see remains of both the Celtic stone roundhouse and the Viking settlement.  The Celtic roundhouse was ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Nov 2 2022 - 3:51pm

6. Ancient Pictish carving found during work on Scottish road building project

   Douglas MacQueen's blog A large Pictish stone carving has been uncovered during a road building project in Pertnshire ... Heritage Trust and Culture Perth & Kinross to inspect the stone and the site of its discovery. The stone was identified by Mark Hall, of ...

   Douglas MacQueen - Oct 31 2017 - 6:30pm

7. Harold's Stones Trellech

   ... Tryleg,  Sir Fynwy, Cymru) along the B4293 road. These stone are aligned and stand at different angles and vary in height, the tallest ... they are ancient Bronze Age stones possibly part of a larger stone row or stone circle. Image: Harolds Stones -(Image courtesy of Clive ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - Jun 27 2022 - 8:23pm

8. Wales: Garden ornament turns out to be 13th century effigy of Llantysilio monk

   ... Around the Celtic world there are many cairns, stone circles, standing stones and carvings in rock from times of prehistory. ... meaning to there creators. It was a tradition of carving in stone that continued through the centuries into the middle ages.  Such stones ...

   Mair Williams - Dec 7 2016 - 12:53pm - 0 comments

9. The Remarkable Irish Monastery of Sceilg Mhichíl

   Ireland's Skellig Islands (Irish: Na Scealaga), are two small spectacular ... they did not play a part in the mythology of pre-Christian Ireland. Although there is no record of the islands being inhabited prior to ... sea level the site is reached by a climb of over six hundred stone steps. Each step carved by hand from the solid rock. The determination to ...

   Ciaran De Búrca - Apr 24 2021 - 1:48pm - 0 comments

10. Céide Fields - Achaidh Chéide

    ... site dating to 3000BC and before. It is the most extensive Stone Age monument in the world with dwelling houses, tombs and stone walled ... Baile an Chaisil) on the R314 in the north of County Mayo, Ireland (Irish: Contae Mhaigh Eo, Éire). This is an extremely important ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - May 4 2021 - 4:48pm

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