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Stone Circles Berrybrae
An excavation by Aubrey Burl revealed two phases of this circle.
The first consisted of a low oval bank of stones 12.8 m by 10.8 m with a recumbent and 9 standing stones around the bank's perimeter.
There was a ring cairn on the central area with 3 cremation burials. Quartz fragments were found near the recumbent.
In the second phase the circle was wrecked, which involved truncating the standing stones other than the recumbent and west flanker. The ring cairn was levelled and a stone wall piled over the former bank and the stone stumps to form an enclosed cremation cemetery.
Radio-carbon dates around 1700 BC have been obtained for the last event, the deposition of a beaker in the bank.
Directions
- Grid ref: NK 027 571 Ordnance Survey Landranger series sheet no. 30
7 miles S of Fraserburgh. The circle is in a clump of trees in the SW angle of the cross-roads ½ mile S of the A952 and can be reached by a path leading S of the road running W from the cross roads to the A92 (at NK 027 572).
