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Archaeology Notes

Date 25 August 1977

Event ID 698022

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698022

NR93SW 1.03 91130 32420

C: at NR 9114 3241. This circle, 13.7m in diameter, may originally have consisted of seven or eight tall sandstone slabs, three of which survive intact, while stumps of others may be seen. The heights of the surviving stones range from 3.7m to 4.9m. Within the circle are two large stones, apparently cut from a fallen pillar, one of which has been perforated as if for conversion to a millstone.

Excavations in 1861 revealed a cist in the centre of the circle. It measured 0.89m by 0.56m and 0.66m deep and contained possibly an inhumation, accompanied by an Irish tripartite bowl food vessel and four flint flakes. A second (empty) short cist was found between the centre and the NE upright stone. A trench dug S from the centre produced nothing.

The food vessel was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1863 by the Duke of Hamilton.

Information from OS (IF) 25 August 1977.

Sources: J N G Ritchie 1973; J Bryce 1863; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1865.

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