TY - JOUR AU - James Ritchie PY - 1923/11/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Stone Circles at Raedykes, near Stonehaven, Kincardineshire JF - Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland JA - PSAS VL - 57 IS - 0 SE - Articles DO - 10.9750/PSAS.057.20.28 UR - http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/7557 AB - Raedykes is well known for its Roman Camp, however, there are also four circles or ring-cairns on the site. The four circles are situated within a short distance of each other, so that a line joining their centres would form a slight curve little more than a hundred yards in length. They are nearly equal in size, and each consists of a ring-shaped cairn with a hollow centre, the interior depression and the exterior circumference being bounded by a setting of earthfast stones, set upright to support the smaller loose stones of which the cairns are composed. Only two of these ring-cairns, the most northerly and the most southerly, are surrounded by standing stones, and each is furnished with a circle of upright stones placed at a distance of a few feet beyond the outer circumference of the cairn. The recumbent\r stone, so important a feature in the Aberdeenshire type of circle, is entirely absent. ER -