Prehistory & Ancient Borders · The Borderlands
Dreaming of Stone Circles: A Borders Short
A playful dream of stone circles opens a path into the prehistoric places and enduring mysteries of the Borderlands.
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Privacy & cookiesStone circles have a way of entering the imagination. Their stones remain, while much of what their builders intended has to be approached through archaeology, landscape and careful questions. Mark's Short takes that fascination into a dream.
This is a playful film, not a claim that a particular circle had one certain meaning. It captures the feeling of seeing ancient stones and wanting to know who raised them and what the surrounding world was like.
Where the dream leads
The Borders hold standing stones and circles in varied settings. Some sites are well recorded; others are fragmentary or disputed. Their different histories deserve to be examined rather than merged into a single mystery.
Watch standing stones and stone circles in the Borders or explore the Tweed valley circle.
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