Archaeology Notes

Event ID 665963

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ25SW 4 2492 5143.

(NJ 2492 5143) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6"map, (1959)

All that now remains is the 'base of the circle... quite entire', but an old woman who lived near the site informed Smith (James Smith, Pitcraggie) that she could remember seeing a number of very large upright stones, which were subsequently removed by local people for mill-stones, door-posts, rollers etc.

From the interior of the circle Smith thought 'as many as 600 loads of stones were removed for the purpose of building dykes and filling drains. The stones were all burnt and mixed with bones, and were all loose so that it only required the lowest ones removed to make those above tumble down'.

Name Book 1871.

A robbed cairn, only a rim of turf-covered cairn material remaining around which a kerb of contiguous stones as edge is visible intermittently giving an overall diameter of about 15.5m. A gap in the SW indicates from where the cairn was robbed.

The cairn is situated within a field system (see NJ25SW 5)

Visited by OS (R L) 23 April 1971.