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Tostarie, Mull

Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Tostarie, Mull

Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 21802

Site Number NM34NE 3

NGR NM 3918 4561

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilninian And Kilmore
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NM34NE 3 3918 4561

Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900).

This standing stone is supposed to be the remains of a 'Druidical Circle'.

OS Name Book 1878.

This standing stone is as described by the RCAHMS (1980) No other stones were located and there is nothing to suggest that a stone circle formerly existed here.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR), 29 April 1972.

(NM 3918 4561) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)

Standing Stone, Tostarie: Situated 200m SE of Tostarie, on a leval platform in the hillside which offers extensive views across Loch Tuath, there is a standing stone of fine-grained basalt. Roughly rectangular in section and aligned NE and SW, it measures 1.8m in height and 0.6m by 0.4m at the base; the top is rounded.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972.

Activities

Field Visit (27 July 1942)

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.

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