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Field Visit
Date 31 August 1914
Event ID 1104053
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1104053
Standing Stone, Sligeanach, Kildonan.
On the machair about 1 mile south-west of Bornish and 400 yards west of the northern end of Loch Kildonan, on the western edge of a line of sand dunes, is a broad monolith tapering slightly towards the top and facing the south-east. It measures 7 feet in height, 2 feet 11 inches in width across the base and 12 inches in thickness.
About 100 yards to the north-north-west are two prostrate stones, the end of one lying across the end of the other; the former measures 6 feet 6 inches long, 2 feet 3 inches broad, and 1 foot 9 inches thick, while the latter, embedded in the sand, is 6 feet long and 3 feet 1 inch broad. Some 18 feet to the east-north-east is a third prostrate stone 7 feet 6 inches long and at least 3 feet 6 inches broad.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 31 August 1914.
OS map: South Uist liii.
