Archaeology Notes

Event ID 647498

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB23SW 7 2465 3034.

(NB 2465 3034) Stone (NAT)

OS 6"map, (1965)

Two standing stones so placed as to suggest that they are the remains of a stone circle stand on the summit of Cul a' Chleit near its eastern side.

The larger stone measures 5'6" in height, 3'2" in breadth and from 13" to 2' in thickness, while the other, which stands 56'10" to the SW is 3' high, 2'10" broad and 7" thick. Some 19 1/2" WNW of the first is a flat slab 5'6" long and 5'1" broad, with another prostrate stone 5'2" long and 3'4" broad lying 10" south of it.

There are some ruined shielings in the immediate neighbourhood which accounts for the destruction of the circle.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

Two upright stones, the most northerly a fine monolith, on the summit of a small but prominent rocky knoll. Despite two or three rough slabs lying prone to the W, it is difficult to believe that they constitute the remains of a stone circle, because of the very uneven and rocky nature of the knoll.

Surveyed at 1/10,000

Visited by OS (A A) 4 July 1969.