EAB20687 - Measured Survey and Field Visit - NORTH STRONE

RCAHMS surveyed the recumbent stone circle at North Strone with plane-table and alidade on 6 September 1994 at a scale of 1:100. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink in 1995. The stone circle has comprised at least nineteen stones set on the inner edge of a stony bank 1.2m thick and 0.25m high which measures 22m in overall diameter. Four stones on the E appear to be in situ, along with the E pillar flanking the recumbent, the tallest being 1m high. The recumbent, which is on the S side of the circle and which measures 1.6m by 0.7m, may also be in its original position, but if so it has been placed within the bank, slightly forward of its flanking pillars. The other stones have fallen, most of them lying on the inner edge of the bank. Twelve stones, including the recumbent and its flankers, are of pink granite, and the rest are grey, but no coherent pattern can be discerned in the disposition of the two types. A roughly rectangular stony platform abutting the inner face of the bank on the W has probably been created by recent disturbance.