Archaeology Notes

Event ID 696876

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR89NW 14 8337 9641.

(NR 8337 9641) Standing Stones (NR) (7 shown)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 1st ed., (1874)

Seven stones in two lines, including an outlier to NW, fallen since 1881. The fallen stone has many cups on its hidden side ('C' on Allen illust) and is perforated. Three of the line of four stones are cup marked, but no certain rings (Campbell and Sandeman 1964). However, Allen's illustration of stones A and B on plan shows cup and ring marks.

J R Allen 1882; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.

Generally as described. The stones are as illustrated by Allen (1882). Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (I A) 2 May 1973.

These stones are set in one line (A, B, C, D on plan) with a further two (E, F on plan) 45.0m to the SW, and a recumbent outlier (G on plan). All are plain except 'B' which has approx 35 cup marks and 3 cup- and-rings on its east face, and 'C' which has approx 30 cup marks and one cup-and-ring on its west face.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (T R G) 5 April 1977.

The cup marked, holed stone, formerly part of the Ballymeanoch complex, has been placed as a cover over a drain beside the kerb cairn. The stone has been placed with cup marks facing upwards. This stone formed part of a scheduled monument.

A Kahane and E Proudfoot 1982.

SDD excavation report.

J W Barber 1980.

Scheduled as 'Ballymeanoch, standing stones... a group of standing stones situated on a gravel terrace on the W side of Kilmartin Glen, 450m to the NW of Ballymeanoch.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 3 May 2005.