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Bridge Of Dunn
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Bridge Of Dunn
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 8741
Site Number ND25NW 10
NGR ND 2045 5638
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/8741
- Council Highland
- Parish Watten
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND25NW 10 2045 5638
(ND 2045 5638) Stone Circle (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)
This single standing stone is said to have been part of a stone circle. It stands 4ft 4ins high, 3ft 3ins in breadth and 1ft 5ins in thickness, facing N-S.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910
The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) says 'a few more large stones stood near it, but were removed years ago'.
Name Book 1871
Around the base of this standing stone, which is as described by the RCAHMS, there are two large stones and several smaller ones, but there is no evidence for there being a stone circle here.
Visited by OS (R D) 20 October 1965
(Name only: ND 204 563) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
No change to the previous field report.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 3 March 1982
Standing stone. Height: 1.4m. Upstanding stone 1m wide, 0.46m thick situated on the edge of a large subcircular grass-covered mound 2m high, measuring 45 x 30m, probably representing the site of a stone circle.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995
