Meikle Kenny, Baldovie
Stone Setting(S) (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Meikle Kenny, Baldovie
Classification Stone Setting(S) (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) West Schurroch
Canmore ID 32348
Site Number NO35SW 1
NGR NO 3180 5417
NGR Description NO 3176 5415, NO 3180 5417 and NO 3182 5418
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Angus
- Parish Kingoldrum
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO35SW 1 centred 3180 5417.
'A': NO 3176 5415 (1 stone shown) Stone Circles (NR)
'B': NO 3180 5417 (4 stones shown) (Renmains of ) (NAT)
'C': NO 3182 5418 (4 stones shown)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1924)
Three equidistant, circular settings of large stones, locally known in 1793 as 'Druids Alters', evidently a corruption of 'Druids Alters'.
By 1862 'A', allegedly the major setting, (information from Rev Haldane to OS), had been reduced to only one standing stone, the others having been removed about 1842. 'B' and 'C', composed of boulders, were apparently still intact. An urn was found in 'C' a few years before 1862 (Ordnance Survey Name Book - ONB 1862).
Warden (1880-5) mentions entrenchments on the hill apparently in association with the settings.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1791 -9; Name Book 1862; A J Warden 1880-5.
Three seperate stone settings lying almost in a straight line are situated near the north edge of a steep ridge.
'A' A Single unsculptured standing stone 1.4m high, 1.0m broad and 0.6m thick; in a pasture field.
'B' 42.0m to the north-east are three small boulders which form a triangle with side lengths of 2, 3 and 3m.
Two of the stones are 0.5m high and the third is embedded in the ground. 'C' 42.0m further to the north-east lies another 'triangle' of small stones, two of which are 0.2m high and the third is also embedded in the ground. This triangle is 3m by 4m by 2m. 'B' and 'C' are in a replanted wood.
There are no traces of the entrenchment noted by Warden (1880-5) (unless this is a reference to the dyke at NO 3267 5468). (NO35SW 4)
Visited by OS (JLD) 18 September 1958.
'A': As described.
'B': As described, except that the third stone can be identified as an earthfast boulder 0.6m wide and 0.2m high.
'C': As described, the third stone however was not evident and probing indicted the presence of a number of stones beneath the surface.
'B' and 'C' stand in small clearings in a dense fir plantation.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 11 January 1977.
Field Visit (9 August 1942)
"Stone Circle" - W. Shurrock
On the level top of a ridge of conglomerate, above the 700' contour but with a low outcrop of rock rising a few feet above it on the N, stands a single flat stone facing N and S 4'6" by 3'6" by 1'9". Against the ruins of a turf dyke on the S edge of the ridge over 100' away is another stone of some size but there is no sign of a genuine stone circle.
Visited by RCAHMS (VGC) 9 August 1942.
Note (1983)
Meikle Kenny, Baldovie NO 31 54 NO35SW 1
An interesting group of stone settings is situated on the crest of a ridge known as West Schurroch, 950m ENE of Meikle Kenny farmhouse.
(i) NO 3176 5415; a single standing stone 1.4m high, which is reported to have been part of a stone setting.
(ii) NO 3180 5417; three stones of a four-poster stone circle about 3.5m in diameter.
(iii) NO 3182 5418; three stones of a second four-poster stone circle (about 4m in diameter), in which an 'urn' was found in the 19th century.
RCAHMS 1983.
(Stat. Acct, ix, 1793, 134; NSA, xi, Forfar, 615; Name Book, Forfar, No. 54, p. 41).
