Wester Torrie
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Wester Torrie
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 24389
Site Number NN60SE 2
NGR NN 6534 0481
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24389
- Council Stirling
- Parish Kilmadock
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN60SE 2 6534 0480.
(NN 6532 0485) A small stone circle in low ground 24 yds from the foot of the fort (NN60SE 1) and 75 yds from its top. It consists of five stones with space for a sixth. The boulders are bulky and shapeless, so that it is hard to tell whether they are standing or overthrown. No.1 is certainly in situ as it stands on a foundation of small stones. In their present positions the highest stands only 3ft 8ins and the lowest 18ins above the ground. No.3 has been split in two (3A and 3B).
D Christison 1902
NN 6534 0480 - A group of stones, as described and planned, possibly a stone circle. Stone 3B now lies adjacent to and on the NW side of stone 3A.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (E G C) 9 October 1968.
This stone circle was apparently destroyed in 1980.
N B Aitchison 1982.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Wester Torrie NN 653 048 NN60SE 2
The remains of this stone circle, which measures 6. 7m in maximum diameter, consist of five bulky stones standing between 0.5m and 1.1 m high; a sixth stone may have been removed.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
Christison 1902, 618-20
