Torhouse
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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.
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- stone circle
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Commons category
- Torhousekie
- historic county
- Wigtownshire
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
- associated electoral district
- Dumfries and Galloway
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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.
==Description== The stone circle consists of nineteen granite boulders set on a slightly raised platform. 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. The larger stones, over 1 metre high, are on the southeast side.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Torhouse” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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