River Shin
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name River Shin
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 5084
Site Number NC50SE 22
NGR NC 5822 0493
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/5084
- Council Highland
- Parish Lairg
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC50SE 22 5822 0493.
(NC 5822 0493) Stone Circle (NR) (remains of) (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1970)
The northern half of a stone circle measuring about 13 to 14ft in diameter the rest of which has been eroded by a burn. Four stones remain in situ, on the W, NW, NE and E, and range in height from 1ft 3ins to 2ft 3ins, standing with their faces along the line of the circumference Surveyed at 1:2500 (Visited by OS {RDL} 2 July 1963)
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
This ring, 36m to the NW of another (NC50SE 2) is the better preserved with four low stones on the circumference of a circle about 4m in diameter.
A Thom, A S Thom and A Burl 1980.
This group of four stones, occupying a low spur on the W bank of the River Shin, is as described and planned by previous authorities. Two of the stones are upright, but the other two are mere boulders, which may not have been set up. One of the uprights and one of the boulders are somewhat loose. There is some doubt that this is a pre-historic stone circle, and it may be a natural formation, wholly or in part.
Visited by OS (N K B) 28 July 1981.
