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Field Visit
Date 20 May 2005
Event ID 1015486
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1015486
This stone circle has been removed and its site now lies in a cultivated field 600m ENE of Carnousie Castle (NJ65SE 18). The stone circle is first described in the Ordnance Survey Name Book (Banffshire, No. 13, p.53) as a 'druidical circle consisting of Seven Stones', and it is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Banffshire 1874, sheet XVI). Coles (1903, 140) purports to show a plan of the circle, but he seems not to have visited the site as his illustration depicts a fortuitous setting of boulders immediately N of Cairn Ennit (NJ65SE 13). Thom, Thom and Burl (1980, 234-5; Burl 2005, 110) in following him made a similar error.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, KM) 20 May 2005.
