Jura, Ardfernal
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Jura, Ardfernal
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 38262
Site Number NR57SE 1
NGR NR 56009 71718
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Jura
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR57SE 1 56009 71718
(NR 5601 7171) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This standing stone is a large block of whinstone about 7ft high and 2 1/2ft thick, situated in an arable field just west of Ardfernal.
Name Book 1878.
This triangular-shaped standing stone which is orientated E-W, measures 1.22m high, 1.1m wide and 0.3m thick at base, dimensions which do not correspond with those of Name Book, and the stone does not appear to have been broken.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 4 May 1978.
Field Visit (May 1975)
NR 560 717. This stone, situated 60m W of Ardfernal, is an erratic boulder measuring 3.1m in girth at the base and 1.2m in height with its longer axis aligned roughly-E and W.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1975
