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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708629

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/708629

NS97SE 17 9908 7387.

(NS 9908 7387) Cromlech (NR) or Remains of Druids' Temple (NR)

OS 6" map (1856)

This is the remains of a Druids' Temple, composed of 5 large stones, three for a base and two on the top. There are several large stones around this Temple, embedded in the ground, which are thought to have formed a Druidical circle; if so, some of the stones must have been removed. Those that remain are not arranged in regular order nor on end.

Name Book 1856

This feature, referred to as a cromlech by several authors writing last century, is described by the RCAHMS (1929) as appearing to be a huge ice-borne boulder which has been shattered. Other stones in the vicinity, once interpreted as a stone circle, are erratics.

A S Henshall 1972

Natural boulders - not an antiquity.

Visited by OS (JLD) 4 December 1952

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