Archaeology Notes

Event ID 753366

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS05NE 7 08465 55361.

(NS 0846 5536) Standing Stones (NR)

OS 6" map, (1957)

Three large whinstone boulders stand in a line on Largizean farm. About 10ft apart, they measure respectively 5ft 2ins high by 4ft 2ins broad, 5ft 6ins by 3ft 4ins and 7ft 3ins by 4ft 10ins.

J K Hewison 1893.

Three standing stones, 3.5 metres apart, stand on a line running NW-SE. From the NW they measure 1.5m high by 1.3m by 0.8m, 1.7m high by 1m by 1m, and 1.9m high by 1.6m by 1.2m.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (B S) 25 October 1976.

These three standing stones, which are situated in the corner of a cultivated field, 500m NW of Largizean farmsteading, are as described by RCAHMS (Emergency Survey) in 1943 and the Ordnance Survey in 1976. Three standing stones are depicted on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Buteshire 1869, sheet CCXV).

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, JH) 5 May 2009.