Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690401

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO57NE 3 5656 7811

(NO 5655 7812) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1902)

Two concentric circles consisting of from 15-20 stones with only 3 stones erect, the highest being about 5'4" [1.6m]. The largest lies prostrate, 9'5" [2.9m] long by 7'5" [2.3m] broad. Other stones from the circles are built into the adjoining dyke, and one large one forms the centre support of a cart-shed.

A Jervise 1882; A J Warden 1880-5.

The remains of a stone circle with most of its stones displaced, truncated in the N by a road, and seems to be little changed since 1882. It has been placed on a turf-covered mound, measuring about 15.5m in diameter and 0.6m high. Only three stones (A, B and C) of the outer circle are in situ, giving a probable overall diameter of 14.5m. Four small stones of the inner circle survive in the E about 2.0m inside the outer circle, and another (D) 2.1m tall in the S which, although perfectly erect, may not be in situ. To the W of this stone are three recumbent stones, one (E) measuring 3.0m x 2.2m x 0.5m. The shape and size of 'E' and its position on the SSW arc of the circle suggests a tentative identification as a recumbent stone circle. However, this classification can only be upheld if 'D' has been erected at a later date and this cannot be possitively determined.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS ( J L D) 28 July 1958 and (A A) 12 August 1972.

Scheduled as 'Colmeallie stone circle... the remains of a recumbent stone circle.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 November 2005.

This stone circle is situated immediately SE of Colmeallie steading (NO57NE 23).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 February 2006.