Archaeology Notes

Event ID 717555

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT55SE 5 5576 5231

See also NT55SE 4 and NT55SE 7.

(NT 5576 5229) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Stone Circle, Borrowston Rig. The setting of these stones is an example of Thom's Type II egg-shape, though the ten surviving upright stones are inconspicious, some barely showing above the heather. Many more fallen ones are visible and some buried examples were located by probing. Most of the stones lie on a true circle 41.5m in diameter. The west segment is formed of an arc of a circle 25.6m in the diameter, the circumference of which passes through the centre of the main circle. The perimeter is completed by straight lines which join the arcs of the two circles.

The RCAHMS note 32 stones, apparently in situ, maximum height 2ft; 33 stones, one upright, were noted in 1956.

E W MacKie 1975; A Thom 1967; RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908

Stone Circle, Borrowston Rigg. A plain circle 41.5 by 36.6m on WNW-ESE axis. Of its low stones, none more than 0.6m high, one lies exactly at the N, 3.1m inside the circumference, like an inlier at Cairnpapple. Thirty-seven metres NW, two stones may mark an alignment on Capella.

A Burl 1976

NT 5576 5231. Situated on level, though boggy ground in an otherwise undulating area, this egg-shaped circle is generally described except that its overall stone-centre dimensions are 48.0m WNW-ESE by 41.0m transversely. Of thirty stones found, five by probing, fourteen appear in-situ uprights up to 0.5m high, and the remainder are recumbent. The SE arc crosses an overgrown and boggy area where further stones are probably buried. The alleged inlier on the N side is an inconspicuous flat stone, and no significant stones were noted to the NW of the circle.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (JRL) 30 May 1979.

Stone setting.

J R Baldwin 1985.