Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656146

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND48NE 1 4656 8900

(ND 4656 8900) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map (1900)

Situated on a ridge is a triangular block of red sandstone nearly 6ft high, set with a packing of small stones at the base and oriented N-S. It is 2ft 6in wide at its base and is from 12 - 13 ins thick. As it rises it tapers to a point slightly inclined towards the W.

Low mentions that he saw here "the remains of a triangular monument but very much defaced, and two of the stones broke to the stumps" giving an illustration to show their relative positions.

G Low 1879; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1929.

A standing stone at ND 4655 8900, as described by RCAHMS. It has been ploughed around and there are no traces of the stumps seen by Low.

The "roughly rectangular slightly raised area measuring 12.0m E-W and 6.0m N-S" could be the site of the chapel described in ND48NE 3.

Visited by OS (IMT), 4 May 1973.