Archaeology Notes

Event ID 647939

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB22NW 1 2342 2989.

(NB 2342 2989) Stone Circle (NR) (remains of)

OS 6" map, (1965)

Five standing stones apparently forming the western arc of a large circle. They vary from 2'6" to 3'6" in height.

Without excavation it is impossible to say whether some 'stones' just appearing above the peat further down the slope are pillar stones or earth-fast boulders.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914

An arc of five upright slabs on a N facing slope. Although situated in a skyline position when viewed from the W, the fact that two of the stones are set very close to each other whilst the others are widely spaced, and the total lack of others on the circumference of a deduced circle of c.100.0m, casts doubt on this being the remains of a stone circle. It is possible that they form part of a field or enclosure wall, but if so any other trace of it is under the peat. The stones further down the slope appear to be out-cropping natural boulders.

Visited by OS (A A) 9 July 1969.

Scheduled as Airidh nam Bidearan, standing stones.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 6 June 1994.