Newton
Cist (Period Unassigned), Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Newton
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned), Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Foreside
Canmore ID 18130
Site Number NJ62NW 11
NGR NJ 6351 2503
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18130
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Premnay
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ62NW 11 6351 2503.
(NJ 6351 2503) Stone Circle (NR) (site of)
Stone Cist found (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1959)
About AD 1835 a stone circle comprising 7 or 8 stones was removed. Underneath one of the stones a cist was found containing a few bones and some black earth.
Name Book 1867.
No trace.
Visited by OS (RL) 5 March 1969.
Nothing is now visible of this stone circle, which was removed in about 1835; its site lies in an arable field 380m SW of Foreside farmsteading (NJ62NW 193).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 4 April 1996.
