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Remains of a recumbent stone circle. Before 1850 there were 12 stones with the recumbent, its two flankers and a fourth slab arranged to form two sides of a parallelogram, whose other two sides has traditionally been dry stone walls. This arrangement may have been caused by the District Head Courts held in Medieval times. Bishop of Aberdeen was said to have held court here in 1349. All that remained in 1902 were the recumbent, two broken and displaced flankers and six other blocks, only one of which was in situ. Excavation revealed that each stone stood in a little 'cairn'. At the centre of the ring was a form of cairn beneath which was a pit containing burnt bone, charcoal, sherds of coarse pottery and part of a wristguard of pale green stone. Around central cremation were several others. Fire-marked stones were found near bases of the circle stones.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)