Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667357

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ43NW 7 4253 3786.

(NJ 4253 3786) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902)

A stone circle, 40 yards in circumference, comprising six stones, two erect and four recumbent, and marked by drill holes. Four had been previously removed, but the remainder were also broken by blasting and removed at the time of writing.

F R Coles 1906.

On a false crest, in a pasture field, the mutilated remains of a recumbent stone circle, c. 10.0m diameter. Seven stones remain including the recumbent stone and its westerly flanker, both of which are prostrate. Of the remaining 5 stones only 2 are erect, but both lean considerably. Drill holes were noted on one of the stones. Piles of cairn-like rubble stones lie both within the circle and immediately outside on the E, but no other trace of a cairn be seen within the circle.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 9 September 1967.