Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665223

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ13SE 4 1853 3085.

(NJ 1853 3085) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map, Banffshire, 2nd ed., (1905)

A stone circle consisting of an outer ring of standing stones 52ft (15.9m) in diameter of which seven remain; an inner ring of stones 19ft (5.8m) wide, and a rectangularly shaped central enclosure measuring 6ft 6ins (1.8m) by 3ft (0.9m).

F R Coles 1907.

The remains of a probable Clava ring-cairn, situated on a low plateau to the E of the confluence of the Avon and Livet at about 700ft OD.

It is incorrectly interpreted by Coles, as it comprises a cairn 13.0m in diameter and 0.7m high, encircled by a ring of stones of which only 4 remain in situ., (Coles plan AFGH) 3 of which are standing to a height of 1.6m. The fourth (H) has fallen inwards. The remaining stones around the perimeter of the cairn are either displaced monoliths from the outer stone circle or kerb-stones.

The cairn has been mutilated by robbing and the addition of stone clearance. The 'inner ring of stones' and the 'rectangularly shaped central enclosure', mentioned by Coles, are no longer visible; the latter was probably a random arrangement, whereas the 'inner ring of stones' may have formed a central enclosure of the cairn. Only excavation will positively identify this as a ring-cairn although all evidence suggests that it is so.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 31 August 1966.