Archaeology Notes

Event ID 661982

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH65SW 6 6116 5195.

NH 6116 5175) Stone Circle (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

Below Croftcrunie farm, 500 yards E (NNE) of the enclosure (NH65SW 8) and 200 yards SE of the enclosure (NH65SW 1) is a "beehive structure". The outer wall is 10 feet thick and 2-3ft high faced internally and externally with large boulders of gneiss closely laid together, with an infilling of firmly packed smaller stones and soil. In the centre is a circular hole still 5 feet deep, but partly filled with stones. It has the appearance of having had a widely vaulted roof (Beaton 1882). Woodham (1956) interprets Beaton's description as an open and mutilated mound cairn, the "vaulted roof" being conceivably a corbelled chamber. Henshall without visiting the site, suggests it may be a Clava-type cairn, the surrounding wall possibly being secondary.

A J Beaton 1882; A A Woodham 1956; A S Henshall 1963.

No trace in a pasture field

Visited by OS (N K B) 25 November 1970.