Archaeology Notes

Event ID 667885

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ53NE 10 5892 3762.

(NJ 5892 3762) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1928)

Nine stones remain of the stone circle at Stonyfield, or Stonyfauld, Drumblade. Two are still in situ and suggest that the circle was about 46ft in diameter. The location of the other seven, though not in situ, suggests that the circle originally comprised twelve equally spaced stones.

'MacDonald (1891) states that, in 1821, the tenant carried away several of the erect stones for building, and others falled, were removed.'

J MacDonald 1891; F R Coles 1902.

The prostrate stones shown in the plan (Coles 1902) have since been collected together around the western standing stone, as shown in the plan by Jones (1955) which is a fairly accurate representation of the circle as it is today, with the exception that the stone shown immediately to the south of the SW standing stone has now been replaced by two small stones.

The two stones still standing are 1.3m high.

Information from OS Reviser T L Jones 7 October 1955; Visited by OS (EGC) 29 September 1961.

Listed as stone circle, 'ruined by recognisable'.

H A W Burl 1976