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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tilquhillie Stone Circle (Remains) Alternative Name: The Druid StoneCountry: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Stone Circle
Map Ref: NO72529402 Landranger Map Number: 38
Latitude: 57.036449N Longitude: 2.454423W
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 RCAHMS book Great Crowns of Stone makes a strong case for the stone circle in the fields close to Tilquhillie Castle having been a recumbent type stone circle. The photos show the likely recumbent stone now resting, discarded, on a consumption dyke between the two fields to the SE of Tilquhillie castle.
"A recumbent stone circle probably once stood in one of the improved fields to the ESE of Tilquhillie Castle, but the stones were cleared before 1855 (see below) and the recumbent, a block known as The Druid Stone (Ritchie 1919, 71), lies discarded on a consumption dyke 275m SE of the Castle (NO 7252 9402). Measuring about 2.5m in length by 1.3m in breadth and 0.8m in thickness, what was the even summit of the block now forms its WNW side. What is probably a second stone from the circle has been re-erected in a gap between another two consumption dykes 35m SW of the Castle (NO 7223 9410); it presents a strongly curved profile and stands 1.65m high."
Source: RCAHMS
Golux adds: The circle was recorded, as a ruin, by Ritchie in 1919 but in his somewhat confused description he had failed to identify the recumbent stone and had posited the nearby standing stone as a flanker to a recumbent without evidence.
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