Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668412

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ54SE 1 5859 4467.

(NJ 5859 4467) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

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

Two blocks of whinstone, the remains of a stone circle, stand on ground sloping to the east, about 1 1/4 miles south-south-west of Yonder Bognie.

One of the stones has lost about a third of its original mass. One stone measures 9 feet 10 inches long by 3 feet broad and 6 feet 3 inches in height.

The other a 'pillar' is 8 feet 3 inches in height.

F R Coles 1903.

The remains of the stone circle are, generally as described above. The pillar stone is 2.2m in height and the second stone 1.7m in height. A mound of stones surrounds the two large stones but this is a result of field clearance.

Visited by OS (EGC) 2 October 1961.

Listed as stone circle: 'Destroyed or unrecognisable'. 'Recumbent stone circle'.

H A W Burl 1976.

This recumbent stone circle is situated on sloping ground about 510m WNW of Westertown farmhouse. Only two stones of the circle survive, the W flanker and the recumbent; the former measures 2.3m in height and the other is 2.9m long and 1.6m high. Field gathered stones have been piled in the interior of the circle. Although known as the Cairnton recumbent stone circle the site lies on Westertown ground.

Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 9 November 1983.