Parkhouse Hill Stone Circle (Aikey Brae) Old Deer, Scotland
Scheduled Monument Data
Parkhouse Hill Stone Circle (Aikey Brae) has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since scheduling.
- Historic Scotland ID
- SM0
- Name
- Parkhouse Hill stone circle (Aikey Brae)
- Parish
- Old Deer
- County
- Aberdeenshire
- Easting
- 395877
- Northing
- 847088
- Categories
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: stone circle or ring
- Date Listed
- 17 August 1925
- Date Amended
- 8 November 1999
- Date Updated
- 3 July 2019
Scheduled Monument Description
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The monument comprises a stone circle situated on the summit of Parkhouse Hill.
The monument is of the class of 'recumbent' stone circles, where there is a large recumbent stone between the two tallest upright stones. There are 5 stones still standing, including the recumbent stone itself, and a further 5 stones that have fallen. The stones are set on a bank of small stones and earth which is about 1.2m wide and appears to have had inner and outer stone kerbs. To the SW of the stone circle there are traces of a small stone-built enclosure, about 5m by 3.5m in size, built onto the outside of the bank.
The area to be scheduled measures 60m in diameter, to include the remains of the stone circle and an area around in which traces of activities associated with the construction and use of the monument may survive, as shown in red on the attached map extract.
Scheduled Monument Statement of Significance
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The monument is of national importance as a well preserved example of a distinctive regional type which has the potential to contribute significantly to an understanding of prehistoric ritual and religion.
Scheduled Monument References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The monument is RCAHMS number NJ94NE4.
