| Details |
Remains of two four-poster stone circles. Several circular settings of large stones, locally known in 1793 as 'Druids Alters' (probably a corruption of 'Druids Altars') stood on West Scurroch. (For setting 'A', allegedly the major setting, see NO35SW0073). Settings 'B' and 'C', composed of boulders, were apparently still intact. An urn was found in 'C' a few years before 1862. Warden mentions entrenchments on the hill apparently in association with the settings. The OS in 1958 recorded the three settings which lay almost in a straight line situated near the north edge of a steep ridge. The central one, 'B', 42 m to the northeast of 'A', consisted of three small boulders which formed a triangle with side lengths of 2 m, 3 m and 3 m. Two of the stones were 0.5 m high and the third was embedded in the ground. Setting 'C', 42 m further to the northeast, was another 'triangle' of small stones, two of which were 0.2 m high and the third embedded in the ground. This triangle was 3 m by 4 m by 2 m. Both of these two settings, 'B' and 'C', were in a replanted wood. There were no traces of the entrenchment noted by Warden (unless this is a reference to the dyke at NO 3267 5468). In 1977 the third stone of 'B' could be identified as an earthfast boulder 0.6 m wide and 0.2 m high, whilst the third stone at 'C' was not evident although probing indicated the presence of a number of stones beneath the surface. 'B' and 'C' stand in small clearings in a dense fir plantation. RCAHMS visit in 1983 recorded the two four-poster stone circle, the southwest one of which three stones were visible was about 3.5 m in diameter, the other was about 4 m in diameter (this was the circle in which the 'urn' was found in the 19th century).
|
Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Angus
HER -
NO35SW0001 - MEIKLE KENNY, BALDOVIE