Archaeology Notes

Event ID 654775

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND23NE 6 centred 29515 38405

(ND 295 384) Stone Rows (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1977).

See also ND23NE 12.

Twenty-two rows of standing stones, on the S slope of the Hill o' Many Stanes.

Dryden (J Anderson 1886), in 1871, noted 250 of which 192 remained erect in 1910.

The stones are generally thin slabs set with their faces looking across the rows and packed at the base with smaller stones. The largest are about 3 ft high, 3 ft wide and 15 to 18 ins thick.

To the E of the easternmost row, one or two protruding stones suggest that the monument may originally have extended further in that direction.

J Anderson 1886; RCAHMS 1911; R W Feachem 1963.

As described above. The stones radiate from the top of a rocky knoll to the N, an ideal position for a cairn, though there is no sign of one. That there have been rows immediately to the E is proved by the presence of small hollows edged with packing stones, although the stones themselves have disappeared.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (A A) 1 May 1967.