Creag Loisgte, Low Stillaig
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Creag Loisgte, Low Stillaig
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 39845
Site Number NR96NW 8
NGR NR 9350 6779
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39845
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR96NW 8 9350 6779
(NR 9352 6778) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900).
There are various opinions as to the purpose of this 4'-5' high stone. In 1863 it was thought to be monumental, while Scott considers it was used to mark an ancient track leading inland from cairn NR96NW 9 . Miss Rennie suggests it may be a boundary marker, possibly connected with the chapel - NR96NW 6.
OS Name Book 1863; J G Scott 1952; Information from E B Rennie to OS, 11 April 1961.
NR 9351 6778: A standing stone measuring 0.9m x 0.3m x 1.8m high. There is no reason to think that the stone is not prehistoric.
Visited by OS (D W R), 1 November 1972.
NR 9351 6779. A standing stone as described in the field report of 1 November 1972.
Surveyed at 1/10,000
Visited by OS (B S), 11 October 1976.
Field Visit (17 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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 (May 1985)
Situated to the N of Creag Loisgte and 550m E of Low Stillaig, this quadrangular stone (1.9m high and 0.85m by 0.3m at the base) is aligned approximately NNW and SSE; it rises to a pointed top with the NNW side vertical and the SSE side slanting,
RCAHMS 1988, visited May 1985.
