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Strichen Stone Circle Scotland TO197066JHP Strichen Recumbent Stone Circle small Buchan Hill Aberdeenshire Scotland, NW of Peterhead off the Fraserburgh/New Deer road in northern Aberdeenshire in North East Scotland. Rebuilt in the early 1980's, to correct previous alterations, it is perhaps the best preserved example of this uniquely Grampian stone circle historical site dating from the early Bronze Age. Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Buchan, Strichen, restored, relocated, original, site, Recumbent, Stone, Circle, Ring, Cairn, circular, hilltop, upright, history, Bronze, Age, ancient, archaeology, ancestors, neolithic, excavation, monument, stones, altar, flankers, monoliths, sockets, uprights, kerb, radials, monolith, hilltop, cemetery, sacrifice, cremation, burial, cult, quartz, granite, tribe, antiquity, burial, cremation, leader, generation, death, ceremony, construction, primitive, community, field, territorial, marker, clearances, ritual, rural, nature, astronomical, seasons, moon, lunar, stellar, sunset, sunrise, cyclical, cycles, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, peaceful, quiet, sun, sunshine, grass, green, blue, white, farming, agriculture, countryside, wild, summer
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Strichen Stone Circle Scotland TO197066JHP
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Strichen Recumbent Stone Circle small Buchan Hill Aberdeenshire Scotland, NW

of Peterhead off the Fraserburgh/New Deer road in northern Aberdeenshire in North East Scotland. Rebuilt in the early 1980's, to correct previous alterations, it is perhaps the best preserved example of this uniquely Grampian stone circle historical site dating from the early Bronze Age.
Keywords: Scotland, Scottish, Grampian, Aberdeenshire, Buchan, Strichen, restored, relocated, original, site, Recumbent, Stone, Circle, Ring, Cairn, circular, hilltop, upright, history, Bronze, Age, ancient, archaeology, ancestors, neolithic, excavation, monument, stones, altar, flankers, monoliths, sockets, uprights, kerb, radials, monolith, hilltop, cemetery, sacrifice, cremation, burial, cult, quartz, granite, tribe, antiquity, burial, cremation, leader, generation, death, ceremony, construction, primitive, community, field, territorial, marker, clearances, ritual, rural, nature, astronomical, seasons, moon, lunar, stellar, sunset, sunrise, cyclical, cycles, colourful, colorful, coloured, colored, peaceful, quiet, sun, sunshine, grass, green, blue, white, farming, agriculture, countryside, wild, summer