Scotland
- Balfarg.
Location - Fife. Near Markinch. The huge mutilated bank and ditch of the enormous circle-henge of Balfarg was probably built by the Grooved ware people around 2700 BC. A Causeway was left at the north-east. On the central plateau, nearly sixty metres across, the people put up a ring of timbers whose posts increased in size and width towards the south-west, where two colossal trunks stood. This impressive circle was later replaced by a stone circle of ten or eleven stones. The relationship between Balbirnie and this site is unknown, although it is possible that the small circle at Balbirnie may have had a similar function to that of the Sanctuary near Avebury.
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