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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Broomend Stone Circle Alternative Name: OverhallCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.8 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Aberdeenshire Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Aberdeen Nearest Village: Auchleven
Map Ref: NJ63302579
Latitude: 57.321178N Longitude: 2.611027W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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The Broomend (or Overhall) Stone Circle ("Site of") appears at NJ 6330 2579, immediately S of a now-vanished quarry on Broomend Farm. The Google Earth image of this location appears to show a very faint circle mark at the exact point on the ground, by a farm track on the edge of woodland - but so faint it may well be wishful thinking; according to RCAHMS the construction of the track obliterated the site.
Although it is impossible to say without a site visit (and maybe some tree clearance!), this might be yet another circle with a view of Dunnideer Hill; intriguingly, a direct line from this site to the summit of Dunnideer looks as if it may pass through Wantonwells Stone Circle.
"[These standing stones] were described in 1867 by the OS surveyors as a stone circle 'composed of four stones, three of which have been broken up for various purposes and the fourth can still be seen ... built into a wall close by. Underneath one of them a recess was found, in form exactly like the stone cists but rather larger, which was filled with ashes' (Aberdeenshire 1870, xliv; Name Book, Aberdeenshire, No.75, p.12) ...
Burl and Ruggles have both listed Broomend as a possible recumbent stone circle, though the latter has also expressed his doubts. With only four stones recorded and no mention of any large slab that might have been a recumbent, there are certainly no grounds for such an identification." Halliday, Sherriff, Welfare & Gannon, 2011 "Great Crowns of Stone, Appendix 1; Other Monuments Sometimes Claimed as Recumbent Stone Circles".
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