Region : Grampian District : Banff & Buchan Town or village : Rathen Grid Reference : NJ 958 470 Period :   Prehistory Berrybrae RECUMBENT STONE CIRCLE

A recumbent stone circle of the Buchan type (i.e. set on a low stone bank). It comprises nine uprights and a massive, 9-ton basalt recumbent. At the centre there was a ring cairn where three burial pits were found. After excavation in 1975-78, Aubrey Burl revealed that the site was vandalised around 1700 BC by people who built a rough wall, probably an enclosed cremation cemetery around the circle.

Other recumbent stone circles ------------------ Aikey Brae Aquhorthies Balquhain Berrybrae Cothiemuir Wood Easter Aquhorthies Eslie the Greater Eslie the Lesser Loanhead of Daviot Midmar Kirk Nine Stanes (Garrol Wood) Old Keig Strichen Sunhoney Tomnaverie Tyrebagger (Dyce) Other sites in Grampian ---------------------- Aikey Brae Aquhorthies Auquhollie Balquhain Berrybrae Broomend of Crichie Cothiemuir Wood Cullerlie Culsh Easter Aquhorthies Eslie the Greater Eslie the Lesser Glassel Lagmore West (Upper Lagmore) Loanhead of Daviot Memsie Midmar Kirk Nine Stanes (Garrol Wood) Old Keig Raedykes South Ythsie Strichen Sunhoney Tomnaverie Tyrebagger (Dyce)