Glenquicken stone circle

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| image = Stone_Circle_south_of_Old_Military_Road_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1290115.jpg

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| locmapin = Scotland Dumfries and Galloway

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| designation1 = Scheduled monument

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| designation1_date = 21 December 1934

| designation1_number = {{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1023|short=yes}}

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Glenquicken stone circle or Billy Diamond's Bridge stone circle ({{gbmapping|NX50965821}}) is an oval stone circle with a central pillar, two miles east of Creetown, Dumfries and Galloway.{{Cite book|title = A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany|last = Burl|first = Aubrey|publisher = Yale University Press|year = 2005|location = New Haven; London|pages = 142}} The outer ring is formed of 29 stones. Aubrey Burl has called it "the finest of all centre-stone circles." It is a scheduled monument.{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=SM1023|desc=Billy Diamond's Bridge, stone circle 300m SSE of, Glenquicken|access-date=25 February 2019}}

Two other circles to the north-west were marked on the Six-inch First Edition Ordnance Survey map.{{Cite journal|url = http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_029/29_301_316.pdf|title = The Stone Circles of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright|last = Coles|first = Fred. R.|date = 1895|journal = Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|pages = 90|access-date = 11 January 2015|archive-date = 11 July 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711204417/https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_029/29_301_316.pdf|url-status = live}} Alexander Thom planned these in 1939, but they are no longer visible.