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Gaval

Recumbent Stone Circle (neolithic) - (bronze Age)
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gaval as Recumbent Stone Circle (neolithic) - (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Gaval is a recumbent stone circle dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, typically associated with ritual or ceremonial use in prehistoric Scotland. Such sites often aligned with astronomical events and may have held spiritual or communal significance for early farming communities.

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