Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695082

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR56NW 2 5128 6648

(Name: NR 5111 6648) Carragh a' Ghlinne (NR)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

Carragh a' Ghlinne, a conspicuous standing stone, measures some 7ft 10ins high by 2ft by 1ft. Aligned with it on the opposite bank of the Allt Carragh a' Ghlinne is a smaller shaped stone 2ft 8ins high and 2ft wide at base. Looking SW over the small stone to the monolith, a small stone on the ridge beyond is strikingly obvious but whether or not this alignment is accidental or intentional is difficult to determine.

E H Rideout 1932.

The standing stone at NR 5128 6648 is as described. Beside it, are three prostrate, similar stones; two measured 2.5m long, the third 3.0m, and they are 0.4 to 0.6m broad by 0.2 to 0.3m thick. It is now impossible to observe the alignments noted by Rideout, the general area having been thickly planted with conifers.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (J M) 5 May 1978.