Desk Based Assessment
Date 3 April 1973
Event ID 697916
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/697916
NR93SW 16 9244 3225.
(NR 9244 3225) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map, Buteshire, (1924)
Three granite blocks, 2-3ft high, forming a circle 24ft in diameter. (The Name Book examiner, adding 'better termed a cairn' has deleted 'Stone Circle').
Source: Name Book 1864.
Three stones remain of this circle, 18ft 10ins in diameter. The sandstone blocks are 2ft 8ins above ground. One stone (A) is recumbent, it measures 4ft 3ins long, 3ft 4ins broad and 2ft 3ins thick. The E stone (B) is 2ft 9ins broad and 2ft thick. The N stone (C) is 4ft broad and 2ft 8ins thick. The centre has been disturbed and there is no cist present.
Source: J A Balfour 1910.
Information from OS (IF) 3 April 1973.
