Publication Account
Date 1985
Event ID 1016632
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016632
This small stone circle is situated in a pasture field immediately south-west of Kinnell House. Few circles with stones as tall as these are so well-preserved, and it is possible that the good condition of this example owes more than a little to its proximity to the former home of the MacNab of Mac Nab. During the late 18th and early 19th centuries it was fashionable to have antiquities in the parkland surrounding great houses, and the stone circle may have been 'improved' during that period.
There are six stones in the ling and they are arranged on the circumference of a flattened circle measuring 9.5m by 8.5m in diameter. Unlike some other circles, the stones are not graded in height but the two tallest stones (up to 2m high) lie adjacent to each other on the south-west quadrant and they are flanked on the north and east by the two shortest stones (1.2m high). On the top of the northernmost stone there are three plain cup-marks: this is a rather unusual place to find them as they are normally to be seen on the flat faces of standing stones.
The Kinnell circle is one of the more westerly exam pies of a large number of stone circles to be found in Perthshire.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: The Clyde Estuary and Central Region’, (1985).
