Millplough
Recumbent Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Millplough
Classification Recumbent Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 36819
Site Number NO87NW 6
NGR NO 8191 7544
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36819
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Arbuthnott
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO87NW 6 8191 7544
(NO 8191 7544) Stone (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1973)
This recumbent stone (450m NNE of Millplough farmhouse) is the sole remnant of a circle, shown as two stones on the OS maps. (The only two stones shown on OS 6" 1868 are this one and NO87NW 12. As these are approximately 200m apart, and have apparently not been moved since 1868, their association as parts of the same circle is doubtful).
The recumbent stone is an oblong mass of puddingstone, maximum length 11 ft 5 ins.
Name Book 1864; F R Coles 1903.
A recumbent stone, as described and illustrated. It is oriented E-W and lies immediately S of a false crest, an ideal situation for a cairn.
Visited by OS (NKB), 18 December 1967.
Field Visit (April 1982)
Millplough 2 NO 819 754 NO87NW 6
A conglomerate slab (2.9m by 0.6m and 1.7m high), situated in an arable field 450m NNE of Millplough farmhouse, may be all that remains of a cairn.
RCAHMS 1982, visited April 1982
(Coles 1903, 196-8)
Field Visit (9 March 2004)
The last remains of this recumbent stones circle, comprising little more than the recumbent itself and a low stony swelling in the surface of the field in which it stands, are situated on a gentle S-facing slope 480m NNE of Millplough. The recumbent, which has an uneven summit, is a slab of conglomerate measuring 3.2m in length by 1.95m in height and 0.7m in thickness, and its NW corner rests upon a support stone. It faces roughly S and stands on this side of the swelling, which can be seen clearly in the measured profile to the rear of the recumbent; measuring some 20m in diameter, the swelling is probably a spread cairn and is up to 0.5m high.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW and KHJM) 9 March 2004
Measured Survey (9 March 2004)
RCAHMS surveyed the remains of Millplough recumbent stone circle on 9 March 2004 with plane table and alidade producing a plan and section of the site and an elevation of the recumbent stone at a scale of 1:100. The plan, section and elevation were used as the basis for an illustration, produced in ink and finished in vector graphics software, that was published at a scale of 1:250 (Welfare 2011, 401).
