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Gleann Beag
Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Gleann Beag
Classification Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 29649
Site Number NO17SW 56
NGR NO 12119 73178
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/29649
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kirkmichael (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (24 February 1988)
NO17SW 1212 7318
Situated on a terrace on the W side of Gleann Beag 1km SW of Rhiedorrach, and incorporated into a later farmstead (NO 17 SW 15), there are the probable remains of a prehistoric stone-setting, either a pair of standing stones or possibly a four-poster. Two narrow slabs, 3m apart and in line, remain erect; the E stone is 1.1m high by 0.8m wide and 0.45m thick, and the W stone, which is free-standing, is 1.3m high by 1m wide and 0.3m thick at the base. Both stones are aligned roughly NE-SW and the E stone forms part of the NW corner of a later rectangular building. 3.6m NW of the W stone there is a large boulder (1.4m long by 0.9m wide and 0.4m thick) which, like a second recumbent boulder (1.6m long by 0.4m wide and 0.2m thick), has been built into the SE angle of a later rectangular building. The latter stone lies 3.9m from the E stone and the recumbent pair may have once formed the W side of an original setting of four stones.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 24 February 1988.
RCAHMS 1990
