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Machrie Moor Stone Circles
Machrie Moor Stone Circles is the collective name for six stone circles visible on Machrie Moor near the settlement of Machrie on the Isle of Arran in Scotland.
==Description==
Six stone circles are visible on the moor immediately east of the derelict Moss Farm.〔(Machrie Moor Stone Circles ), Historic Scotland, accessed 1 May 2014〕 Some circles are formed of granite boulders, while others are built of tall red sandstone pillars.〔 The moor is covered with other prehistoric remains, including standing stones, burial cairns and cists.〔 Several hut circles can also be seen as low rings of turf-covered stone.〔
The six stone circles are situated below a prominent notch on the skyline to the northeast where Machrie Glen divides into two steep-sided valleys. At the summer solstice the notch is intersected by the sun at sunrise, and this may explain why the circles were sited in this location.〔
The stone circles were recorded in 1861 by James Bryce, and numbered 1 to 5.〔"Machrie Moor" in ''Current Archaeology'' (1988), page 35〕 Five other monuments in the area were numbered 6 to 10, and when subsequently a further stone circle was discovered almost completely submerged in peat in 1978, it was numbered Machrie Moor 11.〔 Around 1 kilometer to the west is the remains of the Moss Farm Road Stone Circle,〔(Moss Farm Road Stone Circle ), Historic Scotland, accessed 1 May 2014〕 (Machrie Moor 10).
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