Balhalgardy
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Balhalgardy
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) West Balhalgardy
Canmore ID 18860
Site Number NJ72SE 1
NGR NJ 7598 2431
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18860
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Chapel Of Garioch
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72SE 1 7598 2431.
(NJ 7598 2431) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901)
Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
This standing stone bears three cupmarks and measures 6 feet 7 inches in height and close on 14 feet in girth.
F R Coles 1902.
On the north side of this standing stone, the sole remnant of a circle, there are twenty-four cupmarks, some almost invisible.
J Ritchie 1918.
The sole remaining stone is about 4 1/2 feet high and 2 to 3 feet thick. The Plan of Balhaddardy and Conglass dated 1771 shows 6 stones in the circle.
Name Book 1867.
This standing stone's dimensions are as detailed by Coles (1902), and the cup marks are as described by Ritchie (1918). There is now no trace of the circle on the ground.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 5 March 1964.
(Name cited as West Balhalgardy).
NMRS, MS/712/71.
(Reclassified as Stone Circle; Cup-markings). This standing stone now lies broken into three pieces within a fenced enclosure in a field 380m N of West Balhalgardy farmsteading (NJ72SE 146.00). The stone originally measured about 2m by 1.5m and 0.55m in thickness, and one of it surfaces bore at least 22 cupmarks measuring up to 55mm in diameter. Thirteen of the cupmarks are visible on the NW fragment of the stone, two are on the NE fragment, and seven on the S fragment.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 11 September 2002.