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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691901

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691901

NO88NE 23 from 8767 8947 to 8760 8942.

Resurveyed 1:2500

Visited by OS 29 July 1965.

There are two standing stones on Kempstone Hill. One (NO 8767 8947) measures 1.8m in height and thickens from 0.6m by 0.7m at the base to 1.3m by 0.9m near the top; it appears to stand in the centre of a cairn 4.5m in diameter. The other, situated 85m to the SW (NO 8760 8942), measures up to 1.3m by 0.9m and 2.4m in height. In the 19th century human remains are supposed to have been found beside each stone, and later excavations revealed a small pit, covered by a slab 0.3m square, at the base of the S side of the E stone.

R Barclay 1792; Name Book 1865; J C Watt 1914; RCAHMS 1984, visited March 1983

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