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South Ley Lodge
Recumbent Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name South Ley Lodge
Classification Recumbent Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) South Leylodge Steading
Canmore ID 18705
Site Number NJ71SE 3
NGR NJ 7667 1325
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18705
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ71SE 3 7667 1325
(NJ 7667 1325) Standing Stones (NR)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
South Ley Lodge. In a field a score of yards north of the road, are the recumbent stone and two pillars of a stone circle. The site is on level ground about 300ft above sea level.
The group is composed of ponderous blocks of grey granite, the pillars erect and the recumbent stone fallen considerably inwards. The height of the east pillar is 5" 7" (1.7m) and of the west 5ft 2in (1.58m). The recumbent stone may be said to weigh around four tons. Its length is 4ft 7in (1.4m).
F R Coles 1902.
(Name cited as South Leylodge). This stone circle is situated on level ground which slopes away gently on all sides except the W. It is at an altitude of about 110m OD and in arable ground.
NMRS, MS/712/68, visited 31 August 1977.
Scheduled as 'South Leylodge Steading, stone circle 110m W of....'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 4 March 2009.
Field Visit (14 October 1998)
This recumbent stone circle has been reduced to the three stones of its setting, which stand on the leading edge of a low NE-facing scarp near the foot of the E flank of Knock Hill. The recumbent (2), which faces SSW, is a slab measuring 2.5m in length and has a relatively even summit 1.2m high. The flankers stand 1.65m and 1.85m high respectively and are aligned with the leading face of the recumbent. The western (1) is a relatively slender pillar, whereas its neighbour (3) rises from a broader base to a pointed top. The shape of the latter fits quite snugly with the E end of the recumbent, but the narrow gap in the façade at its foot and the rather larger gap between the recumbent and the W flanker are filled with small blocking stones.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW and KHJM)
