Gleann Beag

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