Kinellar Churchyard
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Kinellar Churchyard
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 19545
Site Number NJ81SW 1
NGR NJ 8216 1440
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/19545
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kinellar
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ81SW 1 8216 1440
(NJ 8216 1440) Stone Circle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6-inch map, 1938.
See also NJ81SW 5.
Two horizontal stones, each about 9ft long and 1ft 9 ins to 2ft thick, are to be seen in the south wall of Kinellar churchyard, and are 'evidently the two Pillars of the Circle' probably merely tipped over from their upright positions.
F R Coles 1902
Only one of the stones is now set in the churchyard wall as the wall has been re-aligned. This stone is 2.9m long and 0.8m thick. The other stone, now buried in the graveyard flush with the ground, is 2.6m long and 0.8m thick. There are no other remains of the circle to be seen.
Visited by OS (EGC) 6 November 1961.
The S wall of Kinellar kirkyard dyke (see NJ81SW 5) incorporates two massive stones, and it has been speculated that they are the remains of a recumbent stone circle. The W stone measures 2.85m in length by at least 0.85m in height and 0.6m in thickness. The other lies 5.15m to the E in the angle of the wall, but little of this is visible, and no meaningful measurements could be made.
Visited by RCAHMS (IF, JRS), 26 July 1996.
Measured Survey (16 March 2000)
RCAHMS surveyed Kinellar Churchyard stone circle on 16 March 2000 with plane table and alidade producing a plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan was 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, 524).
