Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695473

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR45SE 16 4657 5456.

NR 466 546. There are two standing stones at Ardtalla farm:

(a); 15.24m NW of the SW gable, is leaning, greatest height 1.40m; breadth 0.33m and thickness 0.48m.

(b); 27.43m NE of the farm, is an isolated, earthfast stone, 0.69m high, 0.66m broad and 0.45m thick, tapering to 0.40m by 0.38m.

I D Shanks 1976.

NR 4657 5456 (a) An upright stone 0.5m by 0.4m by 1.3m high. Although this may be a Standing Stone it is situated in an area of outcropping blocks of rock and has a somewhat natural appearance.

NR 4667 5458 (b). A small insignificant boulder. Not an antiquity.

(a). Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (BS) 21 June 1978.