Tom Nan Carragh
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Tom Nan Carragh
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Dulnainbridge; Tom Nan Carragh 1
Canmore ID 15720
Site Number NJ02SW 4
NGR NJ 01186 24689
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15720
- Council Highland
- Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Morayshire
NJ02SW 4 NJ 01186 24689.
(NJ 0117 2468) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Morayshire, 2nd ed., (1904)
A standing stone about 8ft high ('supposed to be the remains of a Druidical Circle' is inferred from the text).
Name Book 1871.
A roughly hewn standing stone. No trace of an associated stone circle or cairn.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 7 September 1966.
This granite standing stone, which is situated in pasture on a river terrace 640m E of Ballintomb farmsteading, stands about 2m in height and its top tapers from the E to a rounded point.
Visited by RCAHMS (TIP, AGCH) 26 October 2006.
Field Visit (24 September 1943)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
