Girdle Stanes is a stone circle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
What follows is drawn from published sources, with each claim labelled by how firmly it is established.
Plan your visit
- Location
- 55.2539°N · 3.1759°W
- Access
- Open access
- Terrain
- Easy going
Nearby places
Fortified place · Iron Age
Burnswark Hillfort and Roman Siege Camps
Dumfries and Galloway
An Iron Age hillfort enclosing some 7 hectares sat on the flat-topped basalt hill, alongside Iron Age roundhouses, an earlier Bronze Age burial cai…
- Near Ecclefechan
- 1.9 km from car park
- Some walking
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