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Braeside, Camies' Stone
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Braeside, Camies' Stone
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 18610
Site Number NJ71NE 5
NGR NJ 7686 1792
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18610
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71NE 5 7686 1792
(NJ 7686 1792) Camies' Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, (1938)
See also NJ71NE 4.
The Camus Stone is traditionally the site of the burial of the Danish commander who was killed at the Dansey Burn (Densey Burn - NJ 797 180).
A Watt 1864.
The Camies' Stone (information from A Watt, Kintore) is an upright stone, four feet high, and 18 inches square at the base, which is traditionally said to mark the spot where a Danish general named Camus or Cambus was slain in a battle.
It is doubtful whether the battle ever took place or the general ever existed.
(For "Camies' Grave" - see NJ71NE 4.)
OS Name Book 1867.
The Camie Stone stands 4 feet 8 inches (1.42m) high and measures about 7 feet 3 inches (1.9m) in girth.
F R Coles 1902.
This stone is as described by Coles (1902).
Visited by OS (RD), 10 March 1964.
This granite standing stone lies prone in an eroded depression in the surface of a field of improved pasture. It measures 2m in length from E to W by 0.85m in breath and 0.3m in thickness. Differential weathering suggests it was the rounded end that was originally set into the ground. Several small angular stones protrude from the grass at the base of the depression, but it is not clear whether these are packing-stones in the original stone-hole. The tenant states that the stone has been upended and re-erected on at least one previous occasion. The measurements recorded in 1902 suggest that the stone was embedded to a depth of about 0.6m at that time.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, JRS), 29 April 1998.
