Field Visit
Date 2 May 2011
Event ID 635090
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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The site of this recumbent stone circle, which formerly enclosed a large cairn, falls near the E corner of a field of improved pasture. Its position is now marked by little more than the large recumbent – the Carlin Stone – standing just off the crest of a minor rise on a long spur dropping down northwards from the Hill of Carlincraig. The circle may have measured in excess of 30m in diameter (Name Book, Banffshire, No. 19, p 29) and the recumbent is shown on the SSW of the pecked outline depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1872, xxii). The recumbent (2) faces S and is a block measuring some 3.6m in length by 2.6m in height; a support stone is visible beneath its E end. Immediately adjacent on the E an upright stone (A) some 1.2m high is set back from its leading edge; the front of this small stone is turned at an angle to the axis of the recumbent and a small earthfast quartz-rich boulder lies in the gap between them. Although there is no swelling in the surface of the field to mark the position of the internal cairn attested in antiquarian accounts, the soil is stonier to the N of the recumbent than it is to the S.
Visited by RCAHMS (ATW and KHJM) 2 May 2005