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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 829080
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/829080
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.
