Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674798

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM73SW 2 7259 3425.

(NM 7259 3425) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)

Standing Stone, Barr Leathan: This standing stone, situated in open moorland 900m NNW of Lochdonhead School, has been about 2.5m in height, but now leans distinctly to the W. It is rectangular in section, measures 0.8m by 0.7m at the base and tapers on the NE and SW sides to a flat top.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1975.

This standing stone, dimensions as given by the RCAHMS (1980), is situated in a hollow on the E end of the outcrop from which it has been quarried. Probing reached rock near the base of the stone about 0.3m below the turf.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 17 May 1972.