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Whiteleen, Loch Of Yarrows
Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Whiteleen, Loch Of Yarrows
Classification Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 9045
Site Number ND34SW 39
NGR ND 31637 43111
NGR Description ND 31637 43111 and ND 31639 43105
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9045
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND34SW 39 31637 43111 and 31639 43105
(ND 3163 4311) Standing Stones (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976)
Two prominent, needle-shaped standing stones on the medial line of a low mound which together with the surrounding depression was formed during an unsuccessful search for burials about 1870.
The stones stand 18ft 6ins apart, the highest towards the N, measuring 8ft 4ins in height by 1ft 7ins by 11ins and facing ENE-WSW. The other measures 6ft 5ins high by 1ft 6ins by 10ins and faces N-S.
RCAHMS 1911; R W Feachem 1963.
Two standing stones on an oval, peat-covered mound 1.0m high, as described by the RCAHMS except that both stones face NNE.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (I S S), 14 March 1972.
These stones command views of distant hills which might include astronomical foresights indicated by the orientation of the stones.
E W MacKie 1975.
Two sandstone standing stones (YARROWS04 362-3) are situated 5.6m apart in heather-grown peaty moorland, some 25m NW of the cairn ND34SW 42. The NW stone measures 0.4m by 0.28m at ground level and stands 2.5m in height; the SE stone measures 0.32m by 0.4m at ground level, where several chocking stones are visible, and is 2.05m high. The stones appear to stand at either end of an oval mound measuring about 8m from NW to SE by 5m transversely and 0.5m in height. The entry in the Inventory (RCAHMS 1911, 185) notes that this mound and a concentric shallow trench were formed as a result of a search for burials in the 19th century.
(YARROWS04 362-3)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 29 June 2004.
