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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 871705

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/871705

NS06NW 3 04434 66794.

(NS 0443 6679) Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

At St Calmag's, near Ettrick, there is a Druid's temple in considerable preservation.

New Statistical Account 1840

In a field on the left hand side , about half a mile farther on, are seen the very distinct and well preserved remains of a druidical temple, encircled by a grove of trees. very little seems to be known of the origin of this, or of the many other similar places of heathen worship in the island.

Wilson 1855

There is a stone circle, about 45ft in diameter, within the circular beech plantation, 460 yards south of South St Colmac. When complete, it consisted of nine stones, but now its plan and the dimensions of the stones are as given on Hewison's plan.

J K Hewison 1893

A stone circle situated within a small beech plantation in level pasture land. It comprises four complete stones (C, D, G and H on plan) and the in situ remains of four broken stones (A, B, E and F on plan). There is no trace of the ninth stone mentioned by Hewison.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (TRG) 24 November 1976

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