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Site of a cairn and possible surrounding stone circle. The cairn was about 12 m in diameter and surrounded by a double circle of 20-30 large stones, between 15-18 m in diameter, of which only one remained in 1843. 400 cart-loads of stones were taken from the cairn, according to Ramsay, who took them. According to Jervise the cairn was composed of small stones to a depth of about 1 m, under which lay a quantity of black, clammy earth mixed with charcoal, while a 0.6 m wide track of loose, red sandstone, a few centimetres deep, ran through this deposit to the outer circle on either side. When the OS visited the perimeter of the cairn was visible as a slightly raised area with the sole survivor of the encircling stones. This stood 1.62 m high and was about 2.7 m in circumference at the base, tapering to 1.9 m at the top. Many flint arrowheads were found in the vicinity prior to 1853. Cruickhank wrote in 1899 that the blasted remains of the other stones were visible in the foundation of the neighbouring field dyke. The remaining stone was removed before the OS re-visited in 1958 and no visible traces of the cairn or circle of stones was visible then, or on the later visit of the RCAHMS in 1989. At the time of the latter visit the site was under the plough. The shape of this cairn, with the double ring of stones and the tapering monolith, have suggested that this may have been a Recumbent Stone Circle.
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NO56NW0003 - NEWBIGGING