Kynballoch
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Kynballoch
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Glenballoch; East Drimmie; New Rattray
Canmore ID 28706
Site Number NO14NE 10
NGR NO 179 495
NGR Description NO c. 179 495
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28706
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Rattray
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO14NE 10 c. 179 495
(Area: NO 179 495) A 'stone circle' once stood 'not many score of yards' to the W of the standing stone site (NO14NE 9) at Woodside, but farther down the hill and nearer the river. The site was pointed out to Coles by the son of the finder of a cinerary urn within the circle. The circle was apparently destroyed prior to the O S 1st edn survey (i.e. pre-1864) and the remarkably fine cinerary urn found there was 'full of bones and protected by stones built round it in a bee-hive form'. The urn (in fragments) was given to Allen by the finder, restored, and donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] (Accession no EA 2).
The nature of the find suggests that the site was possibly a cairn circle rather than a stone circle in the accepted sense.
J R Allen 1881; F R Coles 1909.
No trace.
Visited by OS (AA) 6 February 1974
Field Visit (7 October 1986)
Nothing can be seen of what was described as a stone circle (possibly a cairn) that once lay to the SW of Kynballoch (then Glenballoch) farmhouse and 'not many square yards to the west' (F R Coles 1909) of the standing stone NO 14 NE 9. In the 19th century an Enlarged Food Vessel Urn (RMS EA2) was discovered at the site, and when found it 'was full of bones, and was protected by stones built round it in a beehive form' (J R Allen 1881).
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 7 October 1986.
RCAHMS 1990.
