Approximate Location Map
Large Map »
This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 58.2969 / 58°17'48"N
Longitude: -3.4001 / 3°24'0"W
OS Eastings: 318025
OS Northings: 935110
OS Grid: ND180351
Mapcode National: GBR K6ZS.TCZ
Mapcode Global: WH6F2.RQ2C
Entry Name: Guidebest, stone circle, Latheronwheel Burn
Scheduled Date: 26 September 1934
Last Amended: 13 December 2000
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM453
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring
Location: Latheron
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wick and East Caithness
Traditional County: Caithness
The monument comprises a prehistoric stone circle. The circle is already scheduled, but this extension ensures that the area immediately around it is adequately protected.
The circle, which is about 50m across, consists of 8 stones, one fallen and one broken. The largest is about 1.5m tall, the smallest 0.5m. There are other stones in the immediate area that may once have formed part of the setting. Such circles are ritual monuments of the later Neolithic and early Bronze Age periods. The stream-side site is not an uncommon one for such monuments.
The area now to be scheduled is a circle 70m in diameter, but excluding all of that part of the circle lying over or to the W of the Burn of Latheronwheel. This includes all of the stone circle, its interior and a small area around it in which associated remains are likely to survive. The area is marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
No Bibliography entries for this designation
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments