Field Visit
Date 6 September 1994
Event ID 1113605
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1113605
This stone circle is situated at the NE end of the broad summit ridge of Strone Hill, a position which would afford an extensive outlook to N and E were it not for the broom which cloaks this side of the hill. It stands within an area of small cairns and there is a small area of rig to the NW (NJ51SE 47).
The stone circle has comprised at least nineteen stones set on the inner edge of a stony bank 1.2m thick and 0.25m high which measures 22m in overall diameter. Four stones on the E appear to be in situ, along with the E pillar flanking the recumbent, the tallest being 1m high. The recumbent, which is on the S side of the circle and which measures 1.6m by 0.7m, may also be in its original position, but if so it has been placed within the bank, slightly forward of its flanking pillars. The other stones have fallen, most of them lying on the inner edge of the bank. Twelve stones, including the recumbent and its flankers, are of pink granite, and the rest are grey, but no coherent pattern can be discerned in the disposition of the two types. A roughly rectangular stony platform abutting the inner face of the bank on the W has probably been created by recent disturbance.
(CRAIG94 104)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 6 September 1994.
