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Field Visit
Date 27 October 2009
Event ID 606117
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/606117
This granite milestone stands on the E verge of the A836 public road, immediately N of the road bridge (NC54SE 7) over the Allt Dionach-caraidh. Roughly triangular in section, the stone has two flat, dressed, faces on the front and a rounded rear that is roughly hewn. The stone measures 0.4m in breadth by 0.3m in depth and 0.5m in height, and the upper part presents a steeply-sloping facet to the road. The stone bears no inscription, but the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherlandshire 1878, sheet XXXV) notes that it marked the distance in miles to ‘TONGUE 11½’ and ‘ALTNAHARROW 6½’.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 27 October 2009.
