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Measured Survey
Date 1 May 2013
Event ID 1014739
Category Recording
Type Measured Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014739
A plan was taken to show the relationship between the original site of the recumbent stone circle and what remained of the earthen ring-bank to its south. This had been constructed to enclose the original recumbent setting and three other stones that were rearranged around a central oak tree when the ring was restored as a Druidical folly on the orders of Lord Lovat about 1830. Although the north arc of this earthwork was removed in the excavations conducted by Burl, Abramson and Hampsher-Monk from 1979 to 1982, while the remainder was de-turfed, much of its circuit still survives, with the bank measuring 2.5m thick and up to 0.4m high. In addition, the plan shows the ring-bank's relationship to the shallow quarry situated to its SE into which it would seem that the stones were cast when the monument was demolished in 1965.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW; ARG), 1 May 2013.
