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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

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Watten
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Caithness
  • Former County Caithness

Archaeology Notes

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.

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