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Auchnagarran

Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Auchnagarran

Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Auchnagarron

Canmore ID 40544

Site Number NS08SW 8

NGR NS 0064 8215

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilmodan
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes ( - 1976)

NS08SW 8 0064 8215.

(NS 0062 8215) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map (1900)

This standing stone is 3'0" high by 3'3" wide by 2'0" thick, with its flat face turned uphill towards the N.

RCAHMS MSS, visited 1942; M Paterson 1970

As described.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (IA) 23 November 1972

NS 0064 8215. A standing stone as described in the previous information.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (BS) 13 October 1976

Activities

Field Visit (14 September 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.

Field Visit (October 1984)

Situated on the crest of a broad ridge in a pasture field 200m SSW of Auchnagarran, there is an irregular boulder, with its long axis aligned E-W and now leaning a little to the N. The stone measures 3.15m in girth at the base and about 1m in height and has an irregularly gabled top with the apex a little to the E of the centre.

Another stone is said to have stood in the field known as the 'Ra Field' (NS 004 822), but it was 'overthrown by a farm tenant' some years before 1915' (ACC List 19; NMRS NS08SW 11).

RCAHMS 1988, visited October 1984.

Watching Brief (27 May 2010)

NS 0064 8215 A watching brief was maintained on 27 May 2010, during the machine excavation of a trench for a new electricity pole at Auchnagarran. The pole was located in a pasture field c10m S of a standing stone (NS08SW 8). Nothing of archaeological significance was recorded in the trench, which contained 0.25m of topsoil overlying fluvio-glacial deposits.

Archive: RCAHMS and WoSAS

Funder: Scottish and Southern Energy plc

John Lewis – Scotia Archaeology

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