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Field Visit

Date 15 July 1915

Event ID 1103673

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103673

Stone Circle, Gramisdale.

About 1000 yards north of the last described circle (NF85NW 3), and within 250 yards of the southern shore of the North Ford, on a slight eminence, are an erect monolith and two prostrate stones, the remains of a stone circle. The standing stone is a thin, blunt pointed pillar measuring 5 feet in height, 3 feet 9 inches in width at its widest part about half-way up the stone, and 8 inches in thickness; the other stones, measuring 7 feet 9 inches by 4 feet 8 inches, and 4 feet 9 inches by 4 feet 6 inches, lie 41 feet 9 inches to the west-north-west (315° mag.) and 37 feet 4 inches to the south-west (220° mag.) respectively.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 15 July 1915.

OS map: South Uist xlvi.

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