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Aberdeenshire Parish of Kintore
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Druidical Temple Continued

it also, about the usual distance
of one and a half feet from it. This deposit, however,
had been disturbed, probably by a tree which had been planted close to it / A stone had stood in the centre of the circle,
and a digging at this site brought to light a large underground cairn of stones covering a cist. The cairn was
about five and a half feet in depth, forty five feet in circumference at the surface, and thirty at the top. The bottom
was paved with large slabs of stone, of which those at the sides overlapped the edges of one large one in the centre, which
formed the cover of a cist, three feet eleven inches long by two feet ten inches wide. The cist contained a skull at
the west end. At the opposite end were the leg bones, lying across the cist. In the centre of the cist were some
calcined bones. Above the centre of the cairn, just below the superincumbent earth, was found a deposit of
calcined bones, without any urn or flat stones above or below. All the bones found in the circle appeared to be
calcined. Those in the urn first referred to appeared to be partly human and partly those of small animals, if
not of birds. A human jaw-bone in this urn was unmistakeable,- small and delicate, like that of a woman."
Sculptured Stones of Scotland

A sculptured Standing Stone stood, a few years since, about 50 yards east north east of
the circle, it was removed from its original position within the circle, where it now stands, it
is not supposed to have formed any portion of the circle.

The Old Statistical Account calls the foregoing
circle Bruce's How. From the circumstance of the circular entrenchment, it was long supposed to have
been an outpost of the camp on Shaw Hill. The researches of the Antiquarians have, however, proved
this supposition to be a false one, and the name, Bruce's How is no longer applied to it.