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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 722152
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/722152
NT71NE 52 7874 1891.
NT 787 189. A standing stone is situated on a knoll just S of the Hownam - Belford road, about 200yds E of the upper end of Horseshoe Wood. It now leans at an angle of about 55 degrees from the vertical, but there can be little doubt that it once stood erect as it is packed round the base with small blocks and its present upper and lower surfaces show no difference in weathering. A length of 3ft 1ins is now free of the soil on the upper side; the stone is oblong in section, measuring 2ft 8ins in width and 1ft 3ins in thickness at its apparent base. When erect, its major axis would have pointed NW and SE.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1947.
NT 7874 1891. This stone is as described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 24 May 1968.
No change.
Surveyed at 1:10,000
Visited by OS (JRL) 24 October 1979.
