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|name = Torhouse Stone Circle |native_name = |alternate_name = Torhousekie |image = Stone Circle - geograph.org.uk - 2979829.jpg |alt = Photo of the stone circle in evening sunlight |caption = Torhousekie stone circle |map_type = Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |map_caption = |map_alt = |map_size = |location = Galloway |region = |coordinates = {{coord|54.877472|-4.522639|display=inline}} |type = Stone circle |part_of = |length = |width = |area = |height = |builder = |material = |built = |abandoned = |epochs = Neolithic / Bronze Age |cultures = |dependency_of = |occupants = |event = |excavations = |archaeologists = |condition = |ownership = Historic Environment Scotland |public_access = Yes |website = |notes = |designation1 = Scheduled monument |designation1_offname = Torhouse Stone Circle |designation1_date = |designation1_number = {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90304|short=yes}} }} The Standing Stones of Torhouse (also Torhousekie) are a stone circle of nineteen granite boulders on the land of Torhouse, three miles west of Wigtown, Scotland. DescriptionThe stone circle consists of nineteen granite boulders set on a slightly raised platform.[1] The stones have a height ranging from about 0.6 metres to 1.5 metres and are arranged in a circle with a diameter of about 22 metres.[1] The larger stones, over 1 metre high, are on the southeast side.[2] Three upright boulders stand in a line near the centre of the circle.[3] The direction of the line of the three central stones is northeast to southwest.[1] Two stones stand 40 metres to the south-southeast of the stone circle, one large and the other small, and there is a stone row of three stones 130 metres to the east.[2] There are also surviving remains of several burial cairns, and history records others long removed to build field dykes.[2] The stone circle has not yet been archaeologically excavated. It probably dates to the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age.[1][2] The Torhouse Stones are in the care of Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.[2] In folkloreLocal tradition maintains that the three large stones in the center of the circle contained the tomb of Galdus, a mythical Scottish king.[2][4] A similar story is told about one of the tombs at Cairnholy, also in Galloway.[5] In the dyke on the south side of the road is a stone with a deep cavity which according to tradition, "the knowing never pass without depositing therein some pebble or gift to pass in peace".[6] GalleryReferences1. ^1 2 3 {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM90304|desc=Torhouse Stone Circle|access-date=29 March 2019}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web |url=https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/torhouse-stone-circle/history/ |title=Torhouse Stone Circle: History |publisher=Historic Environment Scotland |accessdate=29 March 2019}} 3. ^{{Canmore|num=62843|desc=Torhousekie|access-date=14 August 2015|fewer-links=yes}} 4. ^{{Cite book|last=MacLeod|first=I. F.|title=Discovering Galloway|year=1986|page=213|publisher=John Donald}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/cairn-holy-chambered-cairns/history/ |title=Cairn Holy Chambered Cairns |publisher=Historic Environemt Scotland |accessdate=29 March 2019}} 6. ^{{Cite book|last=Carroll|first=David|title=Dumfries & Galloway Curiosities|year=2013|publisher=The History Press|isbn=075248950X}} External links{{Commons category|Torhousekie}}
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