Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716259

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT40NE 17 4701 0624.

(NT 4704 0625) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 25" map (1968)

This stone circle is situated on a natural shelf at a height of 950 ft, near the summit of Burgh Hill. Sub-oval on plan, it measures 54 ft from NE to SW by 44 ft transversely and comprises twenty-five stones, thirteen of which are erect while the remainder are recumbent. They are all comparatively small slabs (ranging in height from a few inches to 2 ft 8 ins) and most of them have a broad face aligned on the perimeter of the setting (R W Feachem 1963). Only one of the recumbent stones, on the SW side, is appreciably larger in size, measuring 5 ft in length by 2 ft 3 ins in width.

It is recorded (a) that the circle "has been well explored, but yielded nothing of a sepulchral nature".

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949; E W Mackie 1975

This stone circle is as described by the previous authorities.

Revised at 25".

Visited by OS (WDJ) 11 February 1965

Burgh Hill: An egg-shaped ring of many stones. It has been ruined but alone among its little stones a 1.5m pillar remains, fallen, at the SW (238) opposite a 1.1m long, low, thin slab in appearance like a Cork recumbent stone. This 'recumbent' and the prostrate pillar are on the main axis of the site.

H A W Burl 1976

NT 4701 0624. No change to the previous information.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (JRL) 12 November 1979.

Classified as Stone Setting.

J R Baldwin 1985.