Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670365

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ82SW 2 80091 24883

For stone axe possibly from this monument, see NJ82NW 24.

(NJ 8008 2487) Standing Stones (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

At one time the circle was 'rudely paved'.

Name Book 1867.

The remains of the stone circle, originally about 60 feet in diameter, at Kirkton of Bourtie, are a recumbent stone, the east Pillar and two other stones. The recumbent stone, now broken, was originally about 16 feet long and is now 3 feet 4 inches broad and 6 feet 4 inches high. It lies on a definite mound.

The pillar is 9 feet 10 inches high by about 10 feet in girth, and the other two stones 6 feet and 7 feet 9 inches high and between 13 and 14 feet in girth.

There are also some large fragments of stone around the pillar.

(See also NJ82NW 24.)

F R Coles 1902.

The remains of this recumbent stone circle are as illustrated and described by Coles (1902). The ground in the vicinity of the recumbent stone has been used as a dump for stones from field clearancee. The remainder of the area has been ploughed and there is now no trace of paving or any other feature.

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 5 March 1964.

(Name cited as Kirkton of Bourtie Stone Circle). This stone circle is situated in arable ground on the crest of a hill shoulder at an altitude of 157m OD. It commands an open aspect to the W, but has rising ground to the E and the Hill of Barra to the N.

NMRS, MS/712/81.

Scheduled as Kirkton of Bourtie, stone circle.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 March 2002.

The remains of this recumbent stone circle are situated in a cultivated field and comprise the recumbent, the E flanker, and two stones on the W arc. All the stones are of granite, the recumbent measuring 5.1m in length by 1.9m in height and 1.7m in thickness. The E flanker measures 2.9m in height by 1.45m in breadth and 1m in thickness. A large void beneath the E end of the recumbent has been filled in antiquity with a large boulder. The erect stones on the WSW and WNW of the circle measure 1.7m and 2.2m in height respectively.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 22 March 1996.

NJ 8009 2488 Recorded on 29 September 2007. In the centre of the upper surface of the recumbent a possible cup

mark.

George Currie, 2007.