Archaeology Notes

Event ID 698424

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS31NW 8 3227 1869

(NS 3227 1869) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1981).

See also NS31NW 7.

There is a standing stone on Burton farm.

J Smith 1895

This probably refers to stone at 3147 1820.

Information from OS Recorder.

This standing stone measures 2.0m high, 1.0m broad, and tapers from 1.8m wide at the base to 0.8m in width at the top. (These dimensions correspond with those given by Smith for NS31NW 7). It stands on ground which once formed part of Burton farm (Mrs Murdoch, septuagenarian, Burton Smithy).

Visited by OS (JD) 16 December 1955

NS 3228 1868. This weathered stone is almost as wide at base (1.6m by 0.8m) as it is high (1.8m). Its position, on an open plot in a housing estate built in 1972, is some 10m from its published 25" (1966) spot, but as there is no evidence or knowledge of it having been moved during building operations, this must be a mapping error.

Surveyed at 1:1250.

Visited by OS (JRL) 29 September 1980