Location
Midmar Cemetry, Midmar Church near Echt
Echt, Aberdeenshire
OS Map Reference
NJ 699 064
Description
The kirk yard contains a recumbent stone circle; This is a landscaped and slightly re-arranged recumbent stone circle, 17.3m in diameter; it consists of the recumbent, two flankers and five others. The two flankers, each c2.5m high (matched and shaped into two enormous canine teeth), flank a massive recumbent 4.5 m long which weighs some 20 tons it has some markings on the top. The present church was built in 1797 when the old church near Midmar was pulled down . The old graveyard continued in use until 1914 when the new one was laid out around the stone circle. It is likely that the ring cairn was tidied away, probably when the graveyard was laid out around the circle in 1914. Very well maintained
The old kirk yard is nearby at NJ 702 059 called the old church of St Nidan or St Nidian's, it has a good collection of gravestones from the 16thC onwards, including that of George Bell, master mason of Midmar & Craigievar castles.
Era
Neolithic era
Information Source
RCAHMS http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/
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- Michael Watt
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