Excavation

Date 1949

Event ID 1130589

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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At Stanydale a megalithic structure, now reduced to the lower courses averaging some 3 feet in height, comprises a large oval chamber within walls, 12 feet thick. The chamber measures 40 feet by 21 feet on the axis and open to it, around its inner half, a contiguous series of six large recesses is contained in the walling. The floor of the chamber and the recesses consist of the natural gravelly subsoil and spaced along the main axis two deep pestholes have been sunk to carry timber supports for a wooden roof. Exteriorly the outline is a somewhat elongated heel-shape with a shortened concave facade in which is the entrance. The relics include Bronze Age pottery, plain and decorated, two Bronze Age porpghry knives, a whetstone, pumice stones and many rude stone implements presumably of later date.

Mr C S T Calder on behalf of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (DES 1949, 11-12).