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Leslie Parish
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Leslie Parish
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 17695
Site Number NJ52SE 24
NGR NJ
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17695
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Leslie (Gordon)
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ52SE 24 unlocated
See also NJ52NE 6 and NJ52NE 7.
'There were, till lately, the remains of a Druidical temple (in Leslie parish: centred NJ 58 24). The farmer on whose ground it was, demolished it, and used the stones in building fences.'
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845.
Listed as a possible recumbent stone circle.
H A W Burl 1973; H A W Burl 1976.
It is not known whether the monument referred to in the NSA was entirely destroyed or whether it refers to one of the megalithic monuments which are still visible within Leslie parish. These include the Ringing Stone (NJ52NE 7), a standing stone on Johnston Farm that has been identified as a probable flanker of an otherwise destroyed recumbent stone circle, and a recumbent stone at Braehead (NJ52NE 6), until recently, when it was removed, all that remained of another recumbent stone circle.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 7 June 2000.
Publication Account (2004)
A stone circle in Leslie parish listed by Burl on the strength of an oblique reference in the New Statistical Account, initially including it as a possible recumbent stone circle (1970, 79; 1976a, 352, Abn 68; 2000, 421, Abn 69), is a duplicate of Johnston, The Ringing Stone (NJ52NE 7).
