Loanhead of Daviot Recumbent Stone Circle

Loanhead of Daviot is a recumbent stone circle of neolithic age north of Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The recumbent stone circle is 20.5 m in diameter, of eight standing stones, two flankers and a massive, frostsplit recumbent of about 12 tons, near the summit of a gentle hill. The stones of the circle are graded in height and the one immediately east of the east flanker has a vertical line of five cup- marks on its inner face (another seven have been claimed on this stone). Each stone stood in a little cairn, beneath which was a pit containing charcoal and pottery shreds. The central ring cairn, occupies most of the interior of the circle. It overlay traces of burning which, in the central space, included sherds, charcoal, human cremated bone (children's skull fragments and adult bones) and retouched flint flakes. Canmore notes that the east flanker of the recumbent on the inner face has a single cup mark and this depression is visible on matcap. Canmore 18789 NJ 74771 28850