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Publication Account
Date 1996
Event ID 1016517
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016517
Strung along the crest of Campstone Hill at c 190m 00, this important group of early ritual sites has open views to the east. The first feature, 280m north-west of West Raedykes, is a fine ring cairn, 9.4m in diameter and 0.4m high, with the kerbed open central area, 3.9m in diameter, clearly visible. Nine stones up to 1m high survive in the surrounding stone circle, 17m in diameter. 20m to the west-north-west is an oval cairn, 8.5m by 7.7m nd 0.5m high, which is either a ring cairn or a robbed round cairn. The third site, 15m further to the west-north-west, is very similar. The fourth feature stands higher than the others and 80m north-west of the first; it comprises another ring cairn, 10.2m in diameter and 0.6m high, within a stone circle 13.9m in diameter, of which five of the possible 13 stones remain. A close relationship with the recumbent stone circle tradition can be seen on the south-south-west arc of the cairn, where two tall stones are set close together (the western is 1.7m and the eastern is 1.1m tall) with the stump of another in between. Other pillar stones protrude at intervals from the kerb. This emphasis on the south-west was echoed in the surrounding stone circle. (The Roman temporary camp, no. 68, may be visited from here.)
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).
