Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695420

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR65SE 22 6555 5228.

(NR 6555 5227) Standing Stone (NR).

(Carragh an Tarbert) (NAT).

OS 6" map, (1924)

A prominent standing stone situated close to the E side of the public road. Known as "The Druids' Stone", it measures 0.9m by 0.41m at the base, and rises to a height of 2.34m; the longer axis is aligned N and S. It now leans considerably out of the vertical towards the E and, due to the weathering of a natural fissure, the top is divided into two peaks by a deep indentation.

RCAHMS 1971.

No change to RCAHMS report.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (J M) 18 January 1978.

Said to be a 1st millenium BC Lunar Observatory by Thom

A Thom 1971; A Thom 1979.