Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668571

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ63SE 5 6981 3305.

(NJ 6981 3305) Stone Circle (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map, (1959)

The last five stones of this circle were removed c. 1820-30, and nothing now remains. According to the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1867), a Class 1 symbol stone, which was removed to Rothiebrisbane (NJ 74 37) (see NJ73NE 1) once stood in the centre of the circle: Allen (1903) states that it had been used to cover a drain across the country road from Rayne to Auchterless prior to its removal to Rothiebrisbane.

Name Book 1867; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903.