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Airigh Bheag
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Airigh Bheag
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Munsary
Canmore ID 8723
Site Number ND24SW 2
NGR ND 2129 4365
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8723
- Council Highland
- Parish Watten
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND24SW 2 2129 4365.
(ND 2128 4365) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
A stone 7ft long and 1ft 6ins broad. (Not in RCAHMS inventory.)
Name Book 1871.
Situated at ND 2129 4365 in a peat bog is a rectangular pillar now leaning towards the W. it measures 1.5m long, 0.4m broad and 0.3m wide, and it does not have the weathered look of a standing stone. Its purpose cannot be ascertained but it is probably not an antiquity.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S) 14 April 1972.
Stone (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
There is no obvious reason why this stone can not be a prehistoric monument.
NMRS MS/645, p.3.
