Field Visit
Date 10 October 1977
Event ID 1040588
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1040588
NR 8928 3464. This 'stone circle and cairn' is situated on a slight ledge of a W-facing slope.
The 'circle' comprises fifteen earthfast sandstone blocks varying in height from 0.5m to 2.3m with one stone flush with the cairn suface. Conspicuous gaps in the E and S sides suggest other stones are missing or buried. On the E side, two 'rogue' stones upset an otherwise elliptical shape, measuring overall 14.5m NW-SE by 13.0m NE-SW.
It is doubtful that the compacted mass of turf-covered stones that form the cairn could be of entirely recent origin. There is obvious dumping on the S and E sides where the grassed slopes overlap the stone line in haphazard fashion, but the overall impression is of a cairn, 2.0m high on the W side, retained and preserved by the closely spaced stones on the N and W sides.
Re-surveyed at 1:2500. Photographed.
Visited by OS (JRL) 10 October 1977.
