Monument record 276 - ACHMORE, LEWIS

NB32NW 2 3174 2926.

In an area some 30m across by the edge of a currently worked peat bank were a standing stone in a peaty mound, the stump of a stone with its upper part lying by it, and some dozen fallen or natural slabs similar in size to the standing stone, which might be interpreted as lying on a roughly oval perimeter still half below deep peat.
P J Ashmore 1981.

Limited peat clearance exposed further megaliths and groups of packing stones. Prehistoric soil levels were left undisturbed, 18 stones lie close to the perimeter of a true circle of 41m diameter.
G Ponting and M Ponting 1981.

Previously suspected megalith on circle perimeter exposed during peat cutting 1982.
M Ponting 1983.

Peat column samples were taken for prospective pollen and C-14 analyses. Some broken parts of fallen megaliths were re-erected.
M MacRae, M Ponting and G R Curtis 1984.

Further weathering has exposed and dislodged the megalith and its packing stones, reported in 1983. Parts of several re-erected megaliths have been scattered.
M R Ponting and G R Curtis 1988.

Continued cutting of the peat bank has removed most of the remaining peat surrounding and protecting the stone reported in 1983 and its packing stones, and has threatened the packing stones of the adjacent standing stone (missing). Further cutting will soon destroy several more of these stone settings.
G R Curtis and M R Curtis 1989d.

One more stone hole (probably the last) of the circle has been exposed as a result of peat cutting. There are two stones, possibly packing stones, 50cm and 40cm long. The stone exposed in 1982 has subsided to an angle of 30 degrees to the horizontal despite an island of uncut peat around it.
M R Curtis and G R Curtis 1994d.

'The monument comprising a standing stone and recumbent stones and socket holes filled with earth, peat and stone, froming the circumference of a stone circle of 41m diameter and all within a circle of diameter 60m centred on the centre of the stone circle known as Achmore Stone Circle...is hereby included in the Schedule of monuments...'
HS Sceduling Document 18 March 1985.

P J Ashmore, 1981b, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 50 (Bibliographic reference). SWE13305.

G and M Ponting and Ponting, 1981h, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 50 (Bibliographic reference). SWE14551.

M Ponting, 1983, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 39 (Bibliographic reference). SWE14553.

M, M and G R MacRae, Ponting a, 1984d, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 43 (Bibliographic reference). SWE14554.

G R and M R Curtis and Ponting, 1988c, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 32 (Bibliographic reference). SWE14555.

G and M Curtis and Curtis, 1989d, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 72 (Bibliographic reference). SWE10429.

M R and G R Curtis and Curtis, 1994d, Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 95 (Bibliographic reference). SWE34026.