Reference

Date 1840

Event ID 614359

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/614359

'A grove...contains a remarkable kind of building, of which the use remains altogether unknown. This consists of a wall, forming a complete circle 30 feet in diameter; rising to 10 feet in height above the ground, and obviously filled with rubbish to some depth; 9 feet thick, and having a passage 9 feet wide. The erection was doubtless formed with a view to great strength. It is composed of rude stones, many of them of immense size. The workmanship seems to be of a more remote date than that of any part of the adjacent ruins; but its evident communication with these, shown by marks still remaining, would indicate, its having been connected with them, for whatever purpose. It is situated at the foot of a ridge of rock, running from north to south, 50 feet high, and forming at each end a junction with an outer wall, which marked, it is probable, the sacred precincts.’

J Buchanan 1840, NSA