Region : Grampian District : Banff & Buchan Town or village : Old Deer Grid Reference : NJ 958 470 Period : 3rd-2nd millennium BC Aikey Brae RECUMBENT STONE CIRCLE

A fine recumbent stone circle situated on a hilltop, partly surrounded by a conifer plantation. Nine of the original ten stones plus the recumbent survive. The eastern pillars and the west flanker are fallen. Most of the stones are of granite, apart from the whinstone recumbent. The latter is a huge stone, 4.6m long and 21 tons in weight. The stones have been erected on a low elliptical stoney bank, 1.5m wide and 0.75m high. Such banks are a feature typical of recumbent stone circles in the Buchan area.

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)