Archaeology Notes

Event ID 829080

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ81SW 3 8168 1385.

(NJ 8168 1385) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map (1938)

The Cairntradlin Stone is 6 feet in height. Its longest side lying WNW and ESE.

F R Coles 1902

The stone is 1.6m tall, 0.6m wide and 0.5m thick; it has no markings.

Visited by OS (EGC) 7 November 1961.

This standing stone is situated on a gentle NW-facing slope in a cultivated field 300m WSW of Cairntradlin farmsteading (NJ81SW 62). Roughly square in section, the stone is an erratic granite boulder measuring 0.6m from E to W by 0.55m transversely at ground level and 1.55m in height.

The stone is depicted on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1869, sheet lxv; 1901, sheet lxv.NW) and the modern 1:10,000 map (1992).

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 September 2001.