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An ancient ceremonial site

Digging for peat in the valley of Kilmartin, south of Oban on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, locals discovered the site of Templewood purely by accident. It's hard to imagine that this site stood in a dense oak forest when it was built more than 5,000 years ago, as the landscape has changed entirely since then! The two stone circles are in fact part of the same ceremony site; the original circle was marked by wooden posts, which were then replaced by stone. The burned bones of several bodies were placed here after cremation, and a high stone stands in the center, apparently to mark the passage of time with the sun.

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