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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673675

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM15SE 15 1519 5329.

(Approx NM 151 532) Two standing stones.

Information contained in letter from D Maclean, 29 August 1972.

NM 1519 5329. One of these stones, 1.5m high, could be classified as a standing stone. The other has an old metal fence post embedded in it and is more of a boulder than a standing stone.

OS revision 16 July 1974.

(NM 1519 5329) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Standing Stone, Breachacha: This stone, situated 1km SW of Breachacha Castle at the E side of the track to Crossapol Bay, is aligned approximately N and S and stands to a height of 1.5m. About 1.1m in breadth and 0.6m in thickness, it rises with straightish sides to a rounded top and now leans to the W at an angle of 12 degrees. A large recumbent slab, a little to the W, is not considered to have been a standing stone.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1974.

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