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Wantonwells
Recumbent Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Wantonwells
Classification Recumbent Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 18139
Site Number NJ62NW 2
NGR NJ 6187 2729
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18139
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Insch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ62NW 2 6187 2729
See also NJ62NW 3.
(NJ 6187 2729) Standing Stones (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
This stone circle is obliterated except for the recumbent stone c. 11ft (3.4m) long, and the E pillar stone c. 9ft (2.7m) high, with three small earthfast stones in front of them, apparently part of the original setting (Coles 1902). Three other stones were removed some years before 1866 (ONB 1867).
F R Coles 1902; Name Book 1867.
The remains of a recumbent stone circle as described and planned by Coles except that the E flanker is now fallen.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 4 March 1969.
The remains of this stone circle comprise the recumbent stone and a fallen slab that originally flanked its E end. The recumbent, however, is still in situ, and measures 3.2m in length by 0.8m in thickness and 2.2m in height. The fallen flanking stone measures 2.9m in length and the angle between it and the rear of the recumbent stone has been filled with field-cleared stones.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 22 February 1996.
Field Visit (22 June 1999)
Two stones mark the site of this recumbent stone circle, one being the recumbent and the other its fallen E flanker. Now situated in a clearing in a young deciduous plantation on the N side of the minor public road from Old Leslie to Insch, they formerly stood in cultivated field, occupying the summit of a low rise on the gently shelving spur dropping down above Wantonwells. The recumbent block (2), which has a domed summit, faces SSW and measures 3.2m in length by 2.2m in height. The E flanker (3) measures just short of 3m in length and would have been an impressive stone when it was upright. No internal features of the circle are visible, although a shallow depression can be seen in the ground to the N of the recumbent.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW and KHJM) 22 June 1999
