Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Glenrothes

Balfarg and Balbirnie are apparently related prehistoric burial and cult sites. Before the Balbirnie site was relocated, they were located just 200 m apart from each other. The site was excavated before planned widening of the A92 road; the main features of the site were then re-erected nearby. There were five stones visible before excavation, the stumps of four stones and the hole of one stone were discovered. The original ten stones stood in an ellipse measuring about 15 by 14 metres around a rectangular setting of slabs measuring 3.25 by 3.75 metres. Three phases of use were established by the excavation. The rectangle of slabs and the stone circle are from the earliest period. Cremated bone was found beneath four of the circle-stones. At a later time, several cists were inserted within the circle. The cists were covered by a cairn of stones. Within the cairn, there were at least 16 cremation burials. It was concluded that the last phase was in the late second millennium BC.

Balfarg and Balbirnie are apparently related prehistoric burial and cult sites. Before the Balbirnie site was relocated, they were located just 200 m apart from each other. The site was excavated before planned widening of the A92 road; the main features of the site were then re-erected nearby. There were five stones visible before excavation, the stumps of four stones and the hole of one stone were discovered. The original ten stones stood in an ellipse measuring about 15 by 14 metres around a rectangular setting of slabs measuring 3.25 by 3.75 metres. Three phases of use were established by the excavation. The rectangle of slabs and the stone circle are from the earliest period. Cremated bone was found beneath four of the circle-stones. At a later time, several cists were inserted within the circle. The cists were covered by a cairn of stones. Within the cairn, there were at least 16 cremation burials. It was concluded that the last phase was in the late second millennium BC.

The Balfarg Henge serves as a centerpiece green space for the local area with modern housing surrounding the henge. The henge is part of a larger prehistoric complex. It contains the remnants of a stone circle which has been partly reconstructed. It was excavated prior to the development of a new housing estate, work which established that the two extant standing stones were part of a circle that stood within the henge. Within the 64.9 metres diameter henge were found broken Neolithic pottery, burnt wood and bone which had been dumped on the site prior to the erection of a 25 metres wide timber circle of 16 wooden posts. Grooved ware pottery found in the postholes dates to around 2900 BC. Later during the site's use the timber circle was replaced by two concentric stone circles, again with an entrance to the west and some time after this the henge was constructed. Around 1900 BC a pit was dug in the centre of the stone circles and in it was placed the body of a young man along with a flint knife and a handled beaker.