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Field Visit
Date 17 June 1925
Event ID 1099074
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099074
Standing Stones near Balfarg.
These two stones stand, 350 feet above sea-level, about a quarter of a mile south-west from the farmhouse of Balfarg. They are tall boulders of sandstone, roughly rectangular in shape but with somewhat pointed tops, and are set up, in a line running north-west and south-east, at a distance of 43 feet 8 inches from one another. Neither shows any trace of markings, nor do they appear to have been packed at the base. The measurements are :-
WEST STONE. Height, 6 feet 7 inches. Girth at base, 9 feet 8 inches. Girth at 4 feet up, 11 feet.
EAST STONE. Height, 5 feet 3 inches. Girth at base, 12 feet 3 inches. Girth at 4 feet up, 13 feet 2 inches.
They are not marked in Gothic letters on the O.S. map (xix S.E).
RCAHMS 1933, visited 17 June 1925.
