Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675813

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN03SW 12 00517 31079 removed from c. 995 320

For original location see NM93SE 32

(NN 0051 3109) Nelson's Mon (NAT)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

The granite monolith that now stands on a prominent knoll immediately east of Taynuilt village, and which is known as Nelson's Monument, was originally situated about 1.6 kms to the NW on a low ridge named Barra na Cabar, SW of Airdsbay House (NM 9971 3213) (Thomson 1927). It was lying prone at the time of its removal in 1805 by workmen of the Lorn Furnace (NN03SW 5) and, according to local tradition, there had been other 'pillar stones' lying in the same field in the past. This would suggest that it was originally a standing stone, possibly forming part of a setting of such stones. As it stands at the present time, it measures 1.7 by 0.91 by 0.66 metres at the base and rises to a height of 3.43 metres. Its north face bears a dedicatory inscription.

W Thomson 1927; RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1969.

As described. There is nothing significant to be seen at the original site.

Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visited by OS (R D) 21 October 1971 and (R D L) 7 April 1962.