Archaeology Notes
Date 1973 - 1977
Event ID 698983
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698983
NS03SW 11 0269 3299.
(NS 0268 3299) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, (1924)
There is a prominent standing stone 9ft E of the middle of the E side of cairn NS03SW 10. It is 6ft 10ins high, 3ft 10ins wide and 1ft 3ins to 1ft 9ins thick. The ground at the base of the stone was examined by Balfour in 1908:" 3ft 6ins from its N side, a trench was found scooped out of the hard subsoil. It was 4ins in depth and covered by a stone flag 19ins x 11ins x 1 1/4ins, which had split into three portions. In the trench, there was small quantity of charcoal, mixed with minute fragments of calcined bone" (Balfour 1910).
Source: A S Henshall 1972, visited 1962; J Balfour 1910.
NS 0269 3299 A standing stone 1.2m broad, 0.5m thick and 2.2m high.
Surveyed at 1:10 000
Visited by OS (B S) 25 October 1977.
