This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
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: 57.0558 / 57°3'20"N
Longitude: -2.1605 / 2°9'37"W
OS Eastings: 390361
OS Northings: 796091
OS Grid: NO903960
Mapcode National: GBR XM.DQ4Q
Mapcode Global: WH9R2.SXCB
Entry Name: Old Bourtreebush,stone circle and cairn 250m W of
Scheduled Date: 31 July 1925
Last Amended: 16 January 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM980
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring
Location: Banchory-Devenick
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: North Kincardine
Traditional County: Kincardineshire
The monument comprises the remains of a stone circle surrounding a cairn, possibly a ring cairn.
The circle has been reduced to an arc of five stones (four upright, one fallen) running from the SW round to the E, with a possible sixth stone lying to the W. The cairn is visible as a low stony mound. Although the circle has been damaged, it seems likely that the archaeological content of the site remains largely undiminished.
The area to be scheduled measures 50m E to W and 40m N to S, to include the circle and an area around it in which remains associated with its construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved recumbent stone circle and cairn, which have the capacity to enhance considerably our understanding of late Neolithic ritual and burial practices. The monument is of particular importance because of its proximity to another circle of the same kind, at Aquhorthies, 300m to the NNW. Their relationship could cast considerable light on the use to which the circles were put.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS - NO99NW 2
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments