Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691987

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO69NW 2 6488 9966

(NO 6490 9966) Stone Circle (NR).

OS 6" map, (1959)

A sub-oval setting of five, reddish-granite pillar-stones ranging in height from 2'9" to 3'3", and enclosing an area with extreme diameters of 15'9" and 7'9". A prostrate block of indurated sandstone 1' thick lies on the north arc and between this and the erect stone on the west is a small, quite earthfast lump of granite. A 10" thick boulder of diorite or fine-grained granite lies 10' SW of the south stone and much closer to the edge of the bank which falls away to the Canny Burn on the west. The interior is smooth, grassy and well-flattened by a path.

F R Coles 1900.

A setting of upright stones of uncertain purpose, generally as described and planned by Coles except that the prostrate block on the N arc has been moved about 1.0m north-eastwards.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 5 June 1972.

The setting and size of stones are similar (though the 'circle' is smaller in diameter) to the east circle at Backhill of Drachlaw (NJ64NE 6) which Burl (1971) describes as a "circle transitional in form between recumbent stone circles and 4-Posters'. These stones are probably also representative of this transitional type of circle.

Visited by OS (E C W) 14 November 1972.

H A W Burl 1971; H A W Burl 1976.