Tyrebagger, Dyce, Recumbent Stone Circle

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This recumbent stone circle is one of the few that has retained its full complement of stones, standing in the NW corner of a plantation enclosure close to Dyce, Aberdeenshire. Set on the leading edge of a terrace on the NE spur of Tyrebagger Hill, it measures 18.5m in diameter and comprises the recumbent setting on the S and eight orthostats; The recumbent slab measures 3.35m in length by 2.4m in height and has an even summit, but it has fallen backwards and rests at an angle on a boulder near its W end. Over a century of picnic fires, eventually split the stone which required repairs in 1998. The initials JL are carved close to the centre of its outer face. Both flankers remain standing, the western being a slender pillar 3.25m high and the eastern a broader and more pointed slab 2.8m high, but whereas flankers elsewhere so often appear to curve over the ends of the recumbent, here the reverse is true. Canmore 19513