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Balgarthno Stone Circle viewed from the east
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The Balgarthno Stone Circle is a Scheduled Monument in Dundee, Scotland, probably dating from the Bronze Age, which in Britain lasted from about 1900 BCE to 1000 BCE.[1]

It consists of nine large boulders, only one of which, about 1.8 metres (6 ft) tall, is standing. The others are recumbent, and may never have been erected. The stones are arranged in a circle with a diameter of about 8 metres (26 ft). Other boulders lying within the circle were probably dumped there when the surrounding land was being cleared for cultivation.[1]

Very little evidence of human activity has been found around the stones, except for part of a jet ring and a flint scraper reportedly discovered in the early 1960s.[2] The lack of such evidence may be due to the stratigraphy of the site having been destroyed during 19th-century excavations.[1]

The Bargathno Stone Circle seems to have first been recorded by the Reverend Thomas Constable in 1794, who referred to it as a Druidical temple. The fence around the site was erected in 2006, to protect it from vandalism.[1]

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