Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670907

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ81NW 2 8211 1906.

(NJ 8212 1906) Stone Circle (NR)

(Remains of) Urn found (NAT)

OS 6" map (1928)

This grey, granite stone, 6 feet 7 inches (1.75m) high and over 10 feet (3.05m) in girth, is the remnant of a stone circle (New Statistical Account [NSA] 1845) perhaps 45 to 50 feet in diameter. An urn was found almost underneath the stone some time ago (before 1866) (Name Book 1866). It is remarkable that the corn grows very luxuriant around this solitary pillar to a distance of fifteen yards, and has always been eighteen inches higher than the crop immediately beside it.

NSA 1845; Name Book 1866; F R Coles 1902.

The single stone described above stands at NJ 8211 1906, in a ploughed field.

Revised at 25" scale.

Visited by OS (RD) 19 March 1964.

This monument is situated in arable ground on the summit of a broad ridge, at an altitude of 90m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/77.

This granite standing stone, which is situated in a cultivated field about 290m N of Peathill farmsteading (NJ81NW 144), measures 1m by 0.7m at ground level and it stands 2.1m in height.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF) 21 March 1996.