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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.

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  SM117_Legal Doc

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Summary

Description

The monument comprises a stone circle and an alignment of standing stones dating probably from the late Neolithic to Bronze Age (late third to second millennium BC). The stone circle is approximately 10m in diameter and formed of at least five rough boulders. Approximately 20m to the SSW, and in line with the two largest stones in the circle, are a further two monoliths, both now prostate and both around 2.2m long and 0.5m wide. A smaller stone with quartz veins is situated approximately 8m to the SSW in line with the others and is likely to be part of the same complex. The monument is located on the floor of the valley through which the Burn of Corogle runs, at about 290m above sea level.

The scheduled area is irregular on plan to include the stones described above and an area around them within which evidence relating to the monument's erection and use is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. The scheduling excludes the top 400mm of the road surface to allow for its maintenance.

Statement of National Importance

This monument is of national importance as a well-preserved example of a complex of standing stones, apparently comprising a stone circle and associated stone alignment. The site appears largely undisturbed and there is high potential to ascertain the chronology and function of the monument and the relationship between its different components. There is good potential for the survival of well-preserved buried features and deposits, including human or animal remains, artefacts and ecofacts. Such archaeological deposits can inform our understanding of the contemporary population, of ritual and ceremonial activities in the prehistoric period and the character of the local environment at the time of the erection and use of the stones. The monument's importance is enhanced because the stones appear to be in their original location, enabling analysis of the form and function of the monument within its primary landscape context. The loss of this monument would diminish our ability to understand the nature of prehistoric belief and ritual in Angus and the placing and function of standing stones within the landscape.

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About Scheduled Monuments

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Scheduling is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for monuments and archaeological sites of national importance as set out in the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979.

We schedule sites and monuments that are found to be of national importance using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Scheduled monument records provide an indication of the national importance of the scheduled monument which has been identified by the description and map. The description and map (see ‘legal documents’ above) showing the scheduled area is the designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The statement of national importance and additional information provided are supplementary and provided for general information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within the statement of national importance or additional information. These records are not definitive historical or archaeological accounts or a complete description of the monument(s).

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