Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694154

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR39SE 13 3884 9436.

(NR 3884 9436) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1900)

One stone 7' high and seven smaller stones 1 1/2' to 2 1/2' high, the whole forming part of a small circle, said to represent Christ and the Apostles.

Name Book 1878

The remains of either a small stone circle or a tumulus. In 1881 Sir John McNeil could remember stones being removed from the site and a sword or dagger being found in it, which was at one time in Kiloran House. The appearance of the site appears to confirm its having been opened.

There is no local name for the site. It is sometimes called Buaile Riach (OSM Buaile Riabhach - 'Brindled Field') but this name actually applies to the fields.

S Grieve 1923

This is a kerbed cairn 3.0m in diameter. The stones are as described with the tall orthostat on the E side. The interior has now become earth-filled.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (BS) 9 April 1974