Sighthill
Glasgow, City of Glasgow
Stone Circle (modern) Trove

Over 30 years of photographing stone circles and standing stones, and I finally get around to the stone circle closest to me.

This doesn't really fit with the "ancient" moniker since it is a modern construction. It was originally built in 1979 in Sighthill Park, designed by author Duncan Lunan with the stones making precise astronomical alignments to various events including sunrise and sunset at the summer and winter solstices, moonrise and moonset at the northern and southern major and minor standstills, and the rising of the star Rigel in both 1979 CE and 1800 BCE.

In 2016 the stones were removed to make way for Sighthill Park to be redeveloped for housing. A petition had been raised and as a result the stone circle was reconstructed in its current site about 200m east of its original location. Duncan Lunan again oversaw the positioning of the stones to maintain accurate alignments, except that the stones which originally marked the rising of Rigel now mark the spring and autumn equinoxes.

Images ©2026 Martin McCarthy, Theasis Photography

Nearby Sites

5km Pollock Ring Work Iron Age Fort; Hillfort
7km Bearsden Bathhouse Roman Fort
8km Crookston Castle Castle
10km Deaconsbank Golf Course Cup and Ring Marks; Millstone Quarry; Dovecot
10km Rouken Glen Cup and Ring Marks
10km Auld Wives Lifts Carved Stone; Celtic Heads
11km Whitehill Cup and Ring Marks
11km Bothwell Castle Castle
13km Broadgate Farm Standing Stone
13km Strathblane Parish Church Standing Stone
14km Craigenkirn Long Cairn? Modern Ruin? A combination?
15km Carlin Crags Cup Marks
15km Blanefield Standing Stones; Cairn
16km Craigston Wood Cup and Ring Carvings
17km Covenanters Stones Stone Circle
18km Moyne Moor Cist; Cairns; Stone Setting
18km Waterhead Standing Stones
19km Stockie Muir Chambered Cairn
(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)