Database Update
Date 18 September 2010
Event ID 629118
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/629118
The two upright stones described in the Inventory are situated on a roughly level ridge that forms one of several summits of the southern spur of Beinn a’ Chaolcais, probably standing on the northern arc of a small stone circle. Set 5.5m apart, the ENE of the two uprights (NF 90505 78038) measures 0.8m by 0.25m at ground level and rises to a point at a height of 0.65m; its more blocky neighbour to the WSW (NF 90499 78035) measures 0.8m by 0.4m and 0.6m in height. Both stones are aligned ESE and WNW, but while that on the ENE is aligned with the circumference of the circle, the other is set at an angle to it. Several other stones protrude through the short heather round about, one lying midway between them and another immediately WNW of the ENE upright, while a third, a rounded boulder which is described in the Inventory account, lies loose about 3m SE of the ENE upright. In addition to these, however, there are another three prostrate slabs embedded in the turf to the SSW, S and SSE of the two uprights, which together roughly describe the western half of a circle measuring a little over 20m in diameter. The first (NF 90495 78029), on the WSW of the circle, measures 0.9m in length by 0.4m in breadth by 0.2m in thickness; the second (NF 90499 78020), on the S, is 0.8m square and at least 0.15m thick; and the third (NF 90507 78017), on the SE, is 1.05m long by 0.5m broad and at least 0.1m thick.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 18 September 2010
