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Scotland

Browse confirmed ancient monuments alongside clearly labelled related, reconstructed and modern circles.

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Scotland · Isle of Lewis

Calanais I

c. 2900–2600 BC · Cruciform stone setting and circle

A cross-shaped arrangement of Lewisian gneiss centred on a stone circle and chambered cairn.

Scotland · Highland

Clava Cairns

c. 2000 BC · Cairns with encircling standing stones

A remarkable Bronze Age cemetery where passage graves, ring cairns and circles of standing stones form one carefully ordered complex.

Scotland · Aberdeenshire

East Aquhorthies

c. 2000–1500 BC · Recumbent stone circle

One of north-east Scotland's finest recumbent stone circles survives complete among the rolling hills west of Inverurie.

Scotland · Aberdeenshire

Loanhead of Daviot

c. 2500–1500 BC · Recumbent stone circle

A restored recumbent stone circle enclosing the remains of a ring cairn and complex burial activity.

Scotland · Isle of Arran

Machrie Moor 1

c. 2500–1500 BC · Stone circle in ceremonial complex

One circle within a remarkable moorland complex of rings, cairns, standing stones and earlier timber monuments.

Scotland · Orkney

Ring of Brodgar

c. 2500–2000 BC · Henge and stone circle

A monumental ring occupying the narrow land between the Lochs of Stenness and Harray.

Scotland · Glasgow

Sighthill Stone Circle

1979; rebuilt 2016–2019 · Modern astronomical stone circle

A modern astronomically aligned circle showing that stone-circle building remains a living practice.

Scotland · Orkney

Stones of Stenness

c. 3100 BC · Henge and stone circle

Four immense uprights survive from one of the earliest henge monuments in Britain and Ireland.

Scotland · Argyll and Bute

Temple Wood

c. 3000–1000 BC · Two stone circles

Two neighbouring circles at the heart of Kilmartin Glen's exceptionally rich prehistoric landscape.

Scotland · Aberdeenshire

Tomnaverie

c. 2500–1500 BC · Recumbent stone circle

A recumbent stone circle restored on a hill with wide views towards Lochnagar.