Archaeology Notes
Date - 1968
Event ID 667615
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/667615
NJ51SE 2 5844 1389
For small cairns and rig in the area around, see NJ51SE 2.
NJ 5844 1389 Stone Circle (OE) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, 1901.
North Strone, Alford: The stones composing the circle are seventeen in number, they are all short and not very broad. The recumbent stone and pillars are extremely small. The five stones on the NW were recently raised from a prostrate position and erected at intervals believed to be in keeping with the spaces between the undisturbed stones on the E and SW. On the E side of the circle some human bones, and chips of what must have been an ornamented urn were found. There were marks of four graves with nothing in them. The whole space enclosed by the stones was originally paved with rough stones set together; seven graves were found lying nearly E and W within the circle, all previously opened. One contained bones, part of a clay urn with incised decoration; another had several pieces of bone, a tooth and two bits of flint; and in the rest only skeletons could be traced. The approximate circumference of the circle is 170'. The diameters may be stated as 67' x 62'. The recumbent stone whose dimensions are, length 4'8", present breadth (originally the height), 2'4", and thickness 1'7", has been pushed over from its original position between the two pillars.
(F R Coles 1902; Anon 1897).
A recumbent stone circle, c. 20.5m diameter, of unusually small stones. Set into a bank, only 4 stones, including the E flanker, appear to be in situ; the remainder have tumbled. The site is heavily overgrown. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 17 September 1968.
