Archaeology Notes

Event ID 672151

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ94NE 1 9609 4973.

(NJ 9609 4973) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map (1902)

Loudon Wood, Pitfour Circle: Four stones, including the recumbent stone and its west side stone, still stand in situ and three others have fallen. These remains of the circle indicate a diameter of about 64ft.

J Peter 1885

Recumbent stone circle, as described above. The stones are set upon a bank 18.5m in diameter from crest to crest and about 0.8m above the interior.

Revised at 25" scale.

Visited by OS (RL) 5 April 1968.

Air photographs: AAS/97/13/G28/23-6 and AAS/97/13/CT.

NMRS, MS/712/29.