Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664437

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ02SW 6 NJ 01029 24569.

(NJ 0102 2456) Standing Stones (NR)

OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Two standing stones each about 8ft high and supposed to be the remains of a Druidical Circle.

Name Book 1871.

Only one stone now remains standing; the other lies prone at its base. Both are roughly hewn. No trace of an associated stone circle or cairn. Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 7 September 1966.

80yds from this stone are two further stones in a shallow depression, one with cup-marks.

Information contained in letter from R J Stewart, Wester Rynabeallich, Cromdale, Grantown-on-Spey, to OS, 19 January 1986

The area around the base of the fallen stone was excavated with a view to re erecting the stone in its original position. A socket 0.7m across and 0.56m into the subsoil was excavated. The base of the megalith had been packed with stones up to 0.3m in diameter. Only the northern two thirds of the socket was excavated, as the base of the megalith overlay the rest. There were no finds.

Re-erection of the stone was abandoned after it was observed that the megalith had broken along both axes when it fell. The socket was filled with builders' sand and the area returfed.

R Pollock and D Scott 1988.

Two standing stones, only one of which is erect, are situated in pasture on a river terrace 480m E of Ballintomb farmsteading. The erect stone stands about 2m in height and its top tapers from the W to a rounded point; the other stone, which is broken, lies immediately to the NNE.

Visited by RCAHMS (TIP, AGCH) 26 October 2006.