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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 664109
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/664109
NH80NW 1 8442 0858 and 8441 0857
(NH 8442 0858) Stone Circle (NR)
(NH 8441 0857) Standing Stone (NR)
Delfour 'stone circle' - a Clava ring-cairn comprising an outer kerb of about 58 ft diameter, of substantial boulders and a carefully built inner ring of smaller stones. Outside the kerb is a turf-covered bank of small stones (an original feature but increased by field-gathered stones formerly heaped on the site): very little of the cairn material survives. To the SW of the cairn and 22ft from the kerb is a monolith 9ft 6ins high, and to the N of this a prostrate slab 8ft long; these may be the remains of the monolithic surrounding circle.
A S Henshall 1963, visited 1957.
As described and planned by Henshall.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 1 December 1966.
