Archaeology Notes
Date 31 October 2006
Event ID 1105151
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105151
A single erect stone is all that remains of this stone circle situated on the S side of a small copse of trees 400m SE of Fullerton farmstead. The stone is a granite block measuring 0.9m in breadth by 0.8m in thickness and 1.95m in height, and has been incorporated into a circular bank that encloses a small plantation. The interior of the enclosure, which measures 16.3m in internal diameter, is now choked with field-cleared stones. Earlier accounts suggest that the circle was about twenty-eight feet (8.5m) in diameter, and had comprised six or seven stones, although only three stones survived at that time, and of these two were prostrate and broken (Anderson 1886, 108). Investigations by Dalrymple during the mid 1850s revealed an area of burning nine feet (2.7m) in diameter just below the surface at the centre of the circle, and a grave, aligned east and west, was found in the middle; this contained an unburnt skeleton, together with fragments of an urn and cremated bones. Around the grave, seven deposits of burnt bones were also discovered, some of which were contained in small circular cists and some of which included fragments of urns. The context for these deposits is uncertain, but suggests secondary activity within the circle, and a radiocarbon date obtained from cremated bone provides a Late Bronze Age date, consistent with the reclassification of the associated pottery as Late Bronze Age flat-rimmed ware (Kilbride-Jones 1935, 446-7; DES 2003, 169).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 31 October 2006
