Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691635
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691635
NO79SE 1 7535 9406.
The remains of this stone circle are situated on the S shoulder of a ridge 120m NNE of Cairnfauld farmhouse. It measures at least 21.2m in diameter, but only three of the five stones now visible are in situ, two of them standing within the thickness of a consumption dyke on the E and S respectively, and the third on the SW; the fourth which originally stood on the W, is now prostrate immediately W of the SW stone, and the fifth, whose long axis lies across the circumference of the circle, may have been re-erected on the N about 1877. The tallest of the stones, about 1.8m high, is on the S, those on the SW and E meausuring 1.5m and 1.3m in height respectively. In the 19th century human bones were found near the centre of the circle. Although the interior of the circle was under plough at the date of visit, there is no trace of any cairn material, and no evidence of a recumbent setting.
Name Book 1864; R S Smith 1880; F R Coles 1900; A Thom, A S Thom and A Burl 1980; RCAHMS 1984, visited February 1984