Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675049

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM62NW 1 61780 25117

See also NM62NW 2-5.

(NM 6178 2511) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1976)

Stone Circle, Lochbuie. This stone circle, 300m NNE of Lochbuie, has originally consisted of nine stones, but one of these is now missing and its position has been marked in recent times by a small boulder (D on plan). The circle is 12.3m in diameter and is composed for the most part of granite slabs, which have been positioned with their flatter faces towards the inside of the circle. The tallest stone (A) measures 2m in height and 0.85m by 0.3m at the base. (The dimensions of the other stones are given with the plan).

An outlying stone (J), 4.6m SE of the circle, is a pointed granite block measuring 0.85m in height and 0.6m by 0.3m at the base.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972

A stone circle with an outlier, as described.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 17 May 1972.

Scheduled (with NM62NW 2 and NM62NW 5 ) as Lochbuie House, stone circle and standing stones.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 February 2003.