Glenrothes - Balfarg Henge

The Balfarg Henge serves as a centerpiece green space for the local area with modern housing surrounding the henge.

The henge is part of a larger prehistoric complex. It contains the remnants of a stone circle which has been partly reconstructed.

It was excavated prior to the development of a new housing estate, work which established that the two extant standing stones were part of a circle that stood within the henge.

Within the 64.9 metres diameter henge were found broken Neolithic pottery, burnt wood and bone which had been dumped on the site prior to the erection of a 25 metres wide timber circle of 16 wooden posts. Grooved ware pottery found in the postholes dates to around 2900 BC. Later during the site's use the timber circle was replaced by two concentric stone circles, again with an entrance to the west and some time after this the henge was constructed. Around 1900 BC a pit was dug in the centre of the stone circles and in it was placed the body of a young man along with a flint knife and a handled beaker.