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Meiklehill Wood, near Newton, Letterfourie.—“remains of Stone Circle” is the description on the O.M. at this site. Only one Stone remains.
It is close to a sharp angle of the wood, at its extreme south end and on its west side, and distant from Core Stanes 1 mile in the direction of W.S.W. The height above sea-level is 500 feet.

The Stone (fig. 23) is an inconspicuous, low, and broad block of light grey quartziferous sandstone, pentagonal in contour, the sides measuring (south) 2 feet 10 inches, (north-west) 2 feet 6 inches, (north) 2 feet 1 inch, (north-east) 2 feet 5 inches, and (south-east) 1 foot 8 inches, thus giving a girth of 11 feet 6 inches. Above the ground, its height is only 1 foot 7 inches, and its -longest diameter across the top 3 feet. The view of this Stone is from the south-east. No one in the vicinity was within reach to give any information concerning the removal of the other Stones; but the presence of a drill-hole, made by a mason’s “juniper,” to a depth of several inches near the centre of the Stone, is highly suggestive of the fate which befell them.

REPORT ON STONE CIRCLES SURVEYED IN THE NORTH-EAST OF SCOT-
LAND, CHIEFLY IN BANFFSHIRE, WITH MEASURED PLANS AND
DRAWINGS; OBTAINED UNDER THE GUNNING FELLOWSHIP.
BY FRED. R. COLES, ASSISTANT KEEPER OF THE MUSEUM.
journals.socantscot.org/index.php/psas/article/view/7081

Prehistoric traces accordingly are numerous. A short cist was dug out in the Cunning Howe, and others on the farm of Castlehill, while burials were found on the slopes of Cairnhill—the name of which is significant. The remains of at least two stone circles and a much dilapidated cairn. Cairn Ennit, survive in the Whitehill Wood (now cut). Flint and stone implements have been turned up in various localities. A little further to the east, in the grounds of Forglen House, are the notable Bronze Age burial mounds known as
Rounie Law and Barbara’s Hillock, from the latter of which a short cist grave was recovered, while the former yielded three unburnt and uncisted interments associated with beaker urns, charcoal and, in one instance, a flint arrowhead.

banffshirefieldclub.org.uk/PDFs/BOOK_13/Banffshire_Field_Club_Transactions_1935-1946_-_1936_Carnousie_WM.pdf

Seems like this used to be a biggie:

“Stone circles vary very much in size ... one at Innesmill, Urquhart, is 120 feet” – banffshirefieldclub.org.uk/PDFs/BOOK_8/Banffshire_Field_Club_Transactions_1908-1909_-_1909_The_Stone_and_Bronze_Ages_in_Scotland_WM.pdf

“Perhaps the largest is one in the parish of Urquhart, which is a hundred and twenty feet in diameter.” – banffshirefieldclub.org.uk/PDFs/BOOK_9/Banffshire_Field_Club_Transactions_1910-1914_-_1911_Sepulchral_Stone_Circles_WM.pdf

Canmore entry – canmore.org.uk/site/17919/oakenknowes

This Clava passage grave appears to be built on a platform but this is perhaps illusory, formed by ploughing round the site combined with the spread of cairn material from the internal mound.
The latter has a contiguous kerb of 13.0x13.5m diameter. This is graded towards the entrance to the south, where the stones are up to 1.05m high. The two end stones to the passage protrude slightly beyond the kerb.
This passage is c5.0m long and leads to a central circular chamber of c3.5m diameter. Much of both these features is buried, the chamber roof has collapsed but much of the passage may still retain its capstones. Two of the latter are visible. The stone circle is 2.0-3.0m outside the kerb with the space increasing to the south. The stones are also graded in this direction and their spacing becomes wider here.

Quoting from p60 of The Design and Distribution of stone Circles in Britain; a Reflection of Variation in Social Organization in the Second and Third
Millennia BC. – A thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in the Department of Archaeology and Prehistory. University of Sheffield. December 1987. by John Barnatt.