Archaeology Notes

Event ID 696172

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR75SW 3 7309 5242.

(NR 7309 5241) Standing Stones (NR)

OS 6" map, (1924)

The most southerly of these three standing stones is situated 36.5m NE of cist NR75SW 2 (qv.). It measures 0.6m x 0.6m at the base, and rises fairly evenly to a height of 2.4m, before tapering to a pointed top, 3.4m high. The centre stone, 3.0m high, is 3.0m to the E. It is a thin slab, 1.5m x 0.3m at base, oriented NW-SE. The third stone, 2.0m NE appears to have been broken off at the top. It measures 0.9m x 0.3m at base, and rises with a slight taper to a height of 2.0m.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1961.

As described by RCAHMS

Surveyed at 1/10 000

Visited by OS (D W R) 13 August 1973.

3 flint pebbles, 2 flint flakes, and 1 flint core from this site, are in Campbelton Museum

DES 1977.

Discussions on the use of these stones and the cist (NR75SW 2) as a 1st millenium BC Solstitial Observatory

E W MacKie 1975; A Thom 1979; G Moir 1981.