Clochmaben Stone, Gretna Green: remains of a Neolithic stone circle which became an Iron Age tribal meeting-place & cult centre of Celtic deity Mabon.
Clochmaben Stone, Gretna Green: remains of a Neolithic stone circle which became an Iron Age tribal meeting-place & cult centre of the Celtic deity Mabon; divine youth equivalent to the Roman Maponus or Apollo. The Clochmabanestane is possibly the Locus Maponi mentioned in the C7th Ravenna Cosmography. An ancient trysting-place whose role was taken over by the Smithy at Gretna Green. View SSW to the Solway Firth & Cumbria.
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Location: Clochmaben Stone, Gretna Green, Annadale and Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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