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Remains of a probable stone circle, and alignment of standing stones. The circle is of the Four-Poster type, and two fallen standing stones, possibly in alignment with part of the stone circle. All these stones lie in a slight hollow on a plateau above the Corogle Burn, immediately adjacent to a marshy area. The stones were first recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1862, where four stones, three of which were upright, were recorded. They are shown on both the 1st and 2nd edition OS maps (circa 1867 and circa 1888) as a line of four stones aligned roughly south-southwest to north-northeast. The second stone from the south, one of the pair of stones, was noted as recumbent and being the largest. By 1935, when visited by the Inspector of Ancient Monuments, only two of the original stones were standing and two previously unrecorded stones, the eastern pair, of the stone circle were recorded with traces of other stones around the circumference of the circle. Of the pair of stones, both were now fallen, the southernmost was 2.43 m long and had a girth of 2.38 m. The northern of the pair lay approximately 1.82 m to the north, was 2.5 m long and rather more than 2.13 m in girth. Appoximately 18.8 m north of this stone were the four others arranged in a circle. Two were erect, a third fallen, and the fourth largely covered by vegetation. The two erect stones, the western of the four, were in line with the pair of prostrate stones to the south and were respectively 1.01 m and 1.14 m in height. The former, or southerly stone, was 2 m round the base and the latter, 2.8 m, while they were 7.4 m apart. The diameter at the third and fourth stone was 7.1 m. The OS visited again in 1958 and 1967, but could find no indications of other stones at the circumference of the circle, possibly due to the thick heather. The height of the additonal stones were recorded as 0.2 m high at the northeast and 0.9 m high at the southeast. A subsequent visit in 1967 by the OS cast doubt upon whether the current situation of the stones is original or due to agricultural activity, a fortuitous arrangement of the four stones in line, possibly the remains of an old field wall. Burl, however, regards the stones as authentically prehistoric and cites parallels of combination of Four-Poster stone circles and Perthshire pairs of standing stones within Perthshire, Kirkcudbrightshire and southwest Ireland.
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NO36SW0002 - COROGLE BURN