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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 646518
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/646518
HY53NE 5 c. 56 37
See also HY53NE 10.
Three former standing stones lie prostrate and half concealed by heather and rank grass at Braeside (HY 5610 3775).
One lies in a field close to the fence on the east, and is a rough, four-sided block of weathered sandstone, 4'9" long, varying in width from 22" to les than 15" and is roughly 15" thick. The second, lying about 40 yds SE, is of the same material and similar shape measuring 4' long by 13" wide by 13" thick. The third lies 100 yds from the first and a short distance east of HU53NE10. It is of the same material as the other two and is 4'4" long and 12" thick, the width varying from 10" to 17 1/2".
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
Braeside is reduced to its foundations and the surrounding area ploughed. There is no trace and no local knowledge of these former standing stones.
Visited by OS (NKB) 24 July 1970.
