Archaeology Notes
Date 1973 - 1977
Event ID 697578
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/697578
NR93SW 3 90056 32650
See also NR93SW 1, NR93SW 10, NR93SW 11.
(NR 9006 3265) Cairn and Circle (NR)
OS 6" map, Buteshire, (1924)
Remains of a Bronze Age cairn and stone circle (S Piggott and W D Simpson 1970). The circle is 63ft in diameter, and was composed of a complete row of stones, 3-4ft high in 1861. It was not excavated by Bryce as the appearance of the interior led him to believe that it had already been robbed. The ONB refers to a large cairn, partly demolished. Nine large upright stones were irregularly placed around it, many others having been removed.
Information from OS (IF) 3 April 1973.
Sources: J Bryce 1863; Name Book 1864
The Moss Farm Road Stone Circle seems to have been a huge cairn of small stones encircled by a kerb of large granite blocks placed close together.
R McLellan 1977
NR 9005 3265. This badly mutilated mound is a robbed cairn with the remains of a conspicuous kerb. It measures 23.0m in diameter and has an average height of 0.8m. A modern fence and a farm track have cut through the north arc and a succession of stone robbing and dumping has disfigured the interior. The kerb consists of seven upright stones, ranging in height from 0.8m to 1.3m and at least five more large stones now on edge.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 15 September 1977
