Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670487

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ84NE 12 881 480.

The site of a stone circle at Culsh was excavated in 1912. Four pits were found, the two largest being 3ft in diameter and 4ft deep, and the smaller two filled with rough stones and decayed bones. Several flints and a stone axe were also found.

W Beveridge 1914.

No trace. According to Mr J Littlejohn, who was present at the excavation, this feature was situated in the area NJ 881 480. He can only recall the burial pits "in a circle": he does not remember a stone circle. Numerous polished stone axes, barbed and tanged arrowheads and worked flints have been picked up in the area and since lost (information from Mr J Littlejohn, Luncarty Villa, Gladstone Terrace, Turriff).

Visited by OS (NKB) 23 April 1968.

The evidence for this being the site of a stone circle is purely Beveridge's (1914) statement. If he was correct this could be the site of NJ84NE 2, but his statement may be merely an assumption, based on

the knowledge of the site of a stone circle in the area.

Visited by OS (AA) 24 April 1968.