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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 644511
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644511
HY42NW 7 4041 2750
(HY 4041 2750 ) Long Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
A stone standing almost 7 ft 6 in high with its major axis is NW-SE. At its base it is 2 ft 6 in wide and 1 ft thick and it tapers gradually to a width of less than 2 ft at the top. On its NW side there is a small indentation 5 ft above ground level. The stone has at some time been broken across the middle, but the parts have been cemented together.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
'Long Stone' as described by the RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (ISS), 8 October 1972.
