Region : Grampian District : Gordon Town or village : Inverurie Grid Reference : NJ 732 207 Period : 3rd millennium BC Easter Aquhorthies RECUMBENT STONE CIRCLE

This is one of the best preserved recumbent stone circles in Grampian. It is an almost perfect circle, 19.5m in diameter, of nine broad stones of pinkish porphyry and, in one case, red jasper. They are graded in height from 1.1m to 1.7m. Then there are the two grey granite flankers (more than 2m in height: they are the highest uprights of the monument) and the recumbent of red granite, that is 3.8m long. Two blocks define an area in front of the recumbent's inner face. Excavations in 1934 found traces of a later internal cairn. In care of Historic Scotland

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)