Archaeology Notes

Event ID 668709

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ60NE 1 6514 0775.

(NJ 6514 0775) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

A Recumbent Stone Circle, approximately 80 feet in diameter, of which five stones of the outer circle, besides both flanking pillars of the recumbent stone, and four fallen stones, remain. Within is the remains of a setting of stones, several in situ, set in a slight bank. This setting is connected to the recumbent stone on its south side by a stone slab. To the North of it was a layer of waterworn boulders set like a floor.

In the centre of the circle three narrow slabs, in situ, and a broad slab 3 feet to the south, suggest that here was an oblong or squarish cavity now impossible to define.

F R Coles 1900.

A recumbent stone circle mainly as described and planned by Coles (1900) except that besides the recumbent stone and it's flankers only 3 stones remain erect of the outer stone circle. The W flanker is unusually small, but this may have been broken.

The 'setting of stones' described by Coles is all that remains of the outer kerb of the ring cairn. The 'slabs' in the centre may be kerb stones displaced when the cairn was robbed.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RL) 7 February 1968.

The circle is 22.3m in diameter. The recumbent, its flankers and three other stones are still in their original positions. The remains of the inner and outer kerbs of a ring cairn within the circle are still visible.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 March 1997.