Desk Based Assessment
Date 28 June 1977
Event ID 1040591
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1040591
NR83SE 1 8928 3464.
(NR 8929 3463) Cairn and Circle (NR).
OS 6" map, Buteshire, 2nd ed., (1924)
Auchagallon Stone Circle: This monument consists of a Bronze Age burial cairn, surrounded by a circle of 15 standing stones, 47ft in diameter
(S Piggott 1970). The ONB surveyor (1864), however, states that the interior of the stone circle is filled with loose stones gathered from the adjacent fields; the examiner has inserted "a cairn of water-worn pebbles". Balfour (1910), quoting Mr Sim, an old local inhabitant, states that though the standing stones appear to enclose a cairn, in Mr Sim's youth, the enclosed area was flat and free of stones. He also remembered the centre of the circle being excavated "many years ago", when a cist was found. He could give no information regarding its contents.
A flint core found near this monument was donated to the NMAS in 1973-4.
Information from OS (IF) 28 June 2018.
Sources: Name Book 1864; J Balfour 1910; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1975.
