| Primary Reference | NJ70NW0008 |
| Name | SUNHONEY STONE CIRCLE |
| NRHE Card No. | NJ70NW9 |
| NRHE Numlink |
18543
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| HES SM No. |
44
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| HES LB No. |
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| Site Form |
Standing Structure
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| Site Condition |
Incomplete
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| Details |
Remains of a recumbent stone circle, 25.4m in diameter, which consists of the recumbent, 2 flanking pillars and 9 other standing stones located on a well defined but low hill shoulder. The recumbent has slumped and part has broken off; it bears 31 cup-marks. The recumbent is a fine grained grey granite but all the other stones are a reddish granite or gneiss. Traces of a low ring cairn can be seen in the interior. Dalrymple, when excavating in 1865, found deposits of cremated bone and some fire-marked stone in the 2.43m diameter central space. A 'circular' cist with some pottery fragments lay at the S side of ring cairn. Each circle stone stood in a little low cairn, although today the stones appear to be in a low bank; the circle may have undergone some restoration. The circular plan of Sunhoney places it early in the development of such circles.
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| Last Update | 16/08/2017 |
| Updated By | nackerman |
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