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Recumbent stone circle with low central kerb cairn, which has been reconstructed. The outer circle, 20.5 m in diameter, is formed of ten monoliths, five of which were prostrate but which were re-erected after excavation, and large recumbent, split in two, on the south arc. The stones are graded in height and the one immediately east of the east flanker has a vertical line of cup marks on its inner face. Round each monolith a cairn had been piled and in some of these evidence of burials were found. Neolithic pottery, of flat-rim ware type found in some cairns. Others contained a similar pot with calcined bone and in a third a short cist with cremated burial and a pygmy urn. The central ring cairn with its prominent kerb, circa 16.5 m in diameter, occupies most of the interior of the circle, the central cairn measuring 3.65 m in diameter. It was built over a cremation pyre. A stone ladle about the size and shape of an ordinary breakfast cup was found by workmen 'cleaning out' the circle about 1863. Excavation in 1934 uncovered a large pit in the centre of the cairn containing burials, Beaker and Iron Age pottery. Other finds from the excavation included flint scrapers and a sword mould made of clay, probably of Late Bronze Age date. Associated with the circle on its east arc was a low earthen bank, probably medieval, extending in a southeast - northwest direction, but most of this was removed when the adjacent Late Bronze Age cemetery (NJ72NW0040) was excavated.
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