Report on Stone Circles surveyed in the North-East of Scotland, chiefly in Banffshire, with measured Plans and Drawings, obtained under the Gunning Fellowship
Year: 1906
Type: article
Abstract: In the report for the year 1903, 1 the most westerly site in the northern portion of the Buchan district was at the Standing Stones of Auchnagorth, three miles to the west of New Pitsligo.For an area westwards of Auchnagorth measuring ten miles by four, there are no sites recorded on the maps.The absence both of cairns and of circles is very marked.Doubtless, this is in great part due to the highly cultivated condition of the land in that district.In the district dealt with in our last survey, the results of which are contained in the present report, the recorded sites are fairly frequent; but, on the majority of them, the actual megalithic remains are lamentably meagre.The district surveyed is a very wide and a very irregular one, and it will be most easily represented by being divided into four portions, viz.-(I.)Sites in Eanffshire to the north-east of Huntly, and mainly in the parishes of Gamrie, Alvah, Boyndie, Marnoch, Ordiquhill, and Rathven ; (II.) Aberdeenshire sites in the parishes of Cairnie and Glass; (HI.) Sites to the north and the north-west of Huntly; and (IV.)Sites to the west of the river Spey, in Elginshire.1 Proceedings, xxxviii., p. 281.
Author: Frederick R Coles
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2948760699