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Field Visit
Date 27 April 1999
Event ID 635283
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/635283
What little remains of this recumbent stone circle is situated at the SW corner of a shelter belt that runs up onto the shoulder of the low hill due west of New Craig, one of several local summits that form a ridge extending southwards to the village of Daviot; lying to the SE of the summit, the circle is intervisible with Loanhead of Daviot (No. 40) some 830m to the SSE. The recumbent setting (1–3) has been incorporated into the corner of the plantation boundary, which to either side comprises an external stone face backed by a thick earthen bank, though the latter is covered to the N by a dump of field-cleared boulders. The interior of the circle is scarred by surface quarrying and there is no reason to believe that either of the two orthostats on the NE quarter, one fallen and the other re-erected 19m and 22m respectively behind the recumbent, is close to its original position. Nevertheless, the scale of the recumbent setting on the SSW of the ring suggests a diameter of at least this order, if not larger. The recumbent block (2) measures about 4.1m in length by 1.85m in height, but attempts to break it up have split the stone from top to bottom and have left the summit broken and jagged. The E flanker (3), which at 3m in height is the taller and more slender of the pair, apparently rests directly on the present ground surface and is slumped against the recumbent; while it is assumed to be in its original position, with its face aligned on the front of the recumbent, the W flanker is differently set, standing back slightly from this line. No trace of a cairn can be seen within the interior of the circle, but what may be a kerbstone about 1.3m high stands adjacent to the W flanker. Its position is not typical of those more commonly found on the kerbs of internal cairns, but it is firmly set in the ground and the face of the adjacent dyke is butted up against it. A stone axe said to derive from the ring forms part of the Ridgeway Bequest in the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (CUMAA: 1927.566; NJ72NW 3.01).
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, AJL and KHJM) 27 April 1999
