Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695969

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR76SW 1 7425 6163 and 7414 6166.

(A and B: NR 7425 6163; C:NR 7414 6166) Standing Stones (NR)

OS 6" map, (1924)

Two stones, A and B, stand 8' apart, in a line N-S, with C a short distance away. A measures 10' x 2'6" x 1'6"; B is 7'8" x 4' x 1'2", while C is 7'6" x 1'7" x 1'2". Fragments of Bronze Age bronze plates oshowing traces of small projecting embossed ornaments of Vandyke pattern, knobs, etc, found at the base of one of these stones, were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] in 1864 by Mrs Campbell of Carse, but they have apparently disintegrated. (See also NR76SW 10).

M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1865.

As described.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (I A) 2 July 1973.

No change to the previous information.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (B S) 2 July 1973.

There is a prostrate stone 37.5m NE of the pair Partly buried; visible part measures 1.66x.40x.23m.

Information contained in letter from M A M Van Koek to OS, 1980. (Hoek?)

Barbed-and-tanged arrowhead of flint or chert found in tree-planting, 1988.

The Kist 1988.