| 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, 25.4 m in diameter, which consists of the recumbent, two flanking pillars and nine other standing stones located on a well defined but low hill shoulder. The recumbent, which has slumped and part broken off, 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 2.43 m diameter central space. A 'circular' cist with some pottery fragments lay at the south side of ring cairn. Each circle stone stood in a little low cairn, although today the stones appear to be in a low bank, suggesting that 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 | 19/01/2022 |
| Updated By | cpalmer |
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