What is recorded here
Seven upright stones enclose a level chamber where a flat slab still lies, marking a place where people repeated their gestures across centuries. The circle sits inside a larger cairn, suggesting that the first tomb was never finished being used. Later hands added a cist beside the chamber and perhaps built the circle itself, turning death into a address they kept returning to.
Within the SW end of a cairn associated with a possible unclassified megalithic tomb (CL009-021012-). A circle of seven upright stones (H c. 0.4m) encloses a small fairly level area (c. 2.5m NW–SE; c. 2m NE–SW). In the centre of this space a large roughly rectangular slab (1.3m NW–SE; NE–SW 0.95m) lies flat. A possible cist (CL009-021059-) lies to the S of the chamber of the tomb. Both of these features suggest that the possible tomb was subsequently reused.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock and Conn Herriott
Edited by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 6 January 2022
Probably dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age, given its association with a megalithic tomb. The stone circle may have had ritual or ceremonial significance, possibly linked to burial practices or seasonal gatherings.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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