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Glenquicken Stone Circle (Glenquickan; Cambret Moor)

All pictures copyright © 1999 Martin McCarthy

pics/thumb/glenquick1.jpg Looking northeast
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pics/thumb/glenquick2.jpg Looking north
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pics/thumb/glenquick3.jpg Looking northwest
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pics/thumb/glenquick4.jpg Looking southwest
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pics/thumb/glenquick5.jpg Another view to the southwest looking towards Knockeans Hill
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pics/thumb/glenquick6.jpg The central pillar looking directly north.
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pics/thumb/glenquick7.jpg Looking southeast
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pics/thumb/glenquick8.jpg Looking east. Many of the smaller stones covering the ground within the circle can be seen
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pics/thumb/glenquick9.jpg Looking northeast
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pics/thumb/glenquick10.jpg Looking north
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pics/thumb/glenquick11.jpg Looking southwest
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pics/thumb/glenquick12.jpg Looking northeast
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pics/thumb/glenquick13.jpg The central pillar, looking south
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This splendid stone circle, on Cambret Moor near Kirkcudbright, consists of twenty-eight low stones in a fifty-foot diameter ring. At their centre stands a six-foot high grey granite stone. There is a gap in the southwest arc, suggesting that a stone may be missing.

The interior of the circle is strewn with cobble-sized stones.