Recently discovered stone tools and circular structures on the Isle of Skye suggest humans from the Old Stone Age traveled all the way to the frigid northwest edge of Scotland. This boundary-pushing ...

When a Stonehenge-like stone circle was discovered on farmland in rural Scotland last year, archaeologists were thrilled. Recumbent stone circles, like the new discovery, were built between 3,500 and ...

A Neolithic circle of standing stones was recently "discovered" by archaeologists in Scotland. But it turns out, local farmers have known about it for generations. The ancient monumental structure — ...

Archaeologists thought this stone circle near the village of Alford, west of Aberdeen was thousands of years old — but it turns out to have been built less than 30 years ago, by a local farmer. The ...

Weighing 6.5 tons and transported to Stonehenge around 5,000 years ago, a new study pegs the Altar Stone's origin to Scotland ...

The ancient ritual meaning of Stonehenge is still a mystery, but researchers are one step closer to understanding how the famous stone circle was created. The unique stone lying flat at the center of ...

Earlier this month, a council in Scotland delivered an exciting announcement: a previously unknown and well-preserved recumbent stone circle believed to date back 4,500 years had been identified on a ...

Archaeologists in Scotland were disappointed to discover a stone circle they believed was centuries old only dates back to the 1990s. Researchers descended on the monument in Leochel-Cushnie, ...

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The ancient ritual meaning of Stonehenge is still a mystery, but researchers are one step closer to understanding how the famous stone circle was created. The unique stone lying flat at the center of ...