Archaeology Notes
Date 1977
Event ID 696683
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/696683
NR93SW 1.04 9198 32393.
D: at NR 9120 3239. This circle is set out around a precisely drawn ellipse the axes of which are 12.69m and 14.58m long. Eleven stones, six granite boulders and five sandstone slabs, set alternatively, form this circle. There appears to have been a sixth slab, in the area of 12 on plan but its location has not been discovered. The six granite boulders, all roughly the same size, measure about 6ft x 4ft x 2ft. Numbers 1 and 11 on plan are in their original positions, as are the five slabs. The other four granite blocks have fallen.
Bryce excavated the centre of this circle and ran a trench to the NE. Nothing was found.
Information from OS (IF) 28 June 1977.
Sources: A Roy, N McGrail and R Carmichael 1963; E W MacKie 1975; J Bryce 1863
NR 9120 3239 A stone circle generally as described above. The geometric pattern and precise measurements given by Roy et al, however, cannot be confirmed.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 13 September 1977
