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Field Visit
Date 21 March 1990
Event ID 635190
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/635190
This ring, which was destroyed in the late 1860s, can be identified as a recumbent stone circle on the strength of descriptions by John Stuart (1854a, 141) and Robert Sim (1865, 145–50), and a plan taken by Christian Maclagan (1875, pl xxvii), the latter depicting the recumbent setting and four orthostats with a beguiling clarity that is largely absent from the earlier descriptions. Fortunately the OS surveyors visited not long after its destruction and with the help of the tenants of Gingomyres, Smallburn and Drumdelgie were able to locate its site in what was by then improved pasture on the E side of the saddle between Black Hill on the NW and Hill of Milleath on the S, an area now cloaked in a forestry plantation.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 21 March 1990
