Publication Account
Date 2011
Event ID 886934
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/886934
This stone circle, which is situated in a park on the west side of Dundee, comprises a ring of nine stones with an internal diameter of about 8m. With the exception of one upright orthostat standing 1.5m high on the west, all the stones have fallen. Other boulders lying within the circle are probably field clearance gathered when the surrounding ground was under cultivation. The report on a watching brief carried out here on behalf of the McManus Galleries, Dundee, refers to the ring as a recumbent stone circle, apparently citing this as one of the reasons that the monument was initially scheduled in 1935 (Hind 2006, 1). While clearly a circle of largely recumbent stones, the circle shares no architectural characteristics with the type of monument known as a recumbent stone circle. Its affinities lie with a group of small rings found elsewhere across Angus and Perthshire (eg RCAHMS 1994, 30–3).
