Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674256

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM45SW 5 43604 53056

(NM 4359 5305) Standing Stones (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1976)

Stone Circle (NR)

OS 6" map (1900)

Listed by Burl as a stone circle among those 'of uncertain status, including misidentified sites'.

A Thom 1967; H A W Burl 1977.

Standing Stones, Maol Mor, Dervaig: In a clearing in forestry on the level top of the broad ridge of Maol Mor, and immediately to the S of the isolated rocky summit, there is a linear setting of four stones extending from NNW to SSE over a distance of 10.4m.

Stone A on plan is prone and measures 2.45m in length, 0.85m in

breadth, and 0.5m in thickness; part of the base has been broken off.

Stone B, measuring 2.1m in height and 0.9m by 0.6m at the base, rises with straightish sides to a rounded top.

Stone C measures 2.2m in height and 1m by 0.7m at the base; the lower half of the S side exhibits a marked triangular projection, after which the stone tapers to a pointed top.

Stone D measures 2.1m in height and 1.2m by 0.85m at the base; it tapers to a flattish top.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972

These four stones were in a similar condition to that described by the RCAHMS when seen in April 1972. They are not the remains of a stone circle.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (RD) 27 April 1972.

Scheduled as Maol Mor standing stones, Dervaig, Mull... sometimes know as the Kilmore or Dervaig A standing stones.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 October 2003.