Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – NN 0120 3115
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Archaeology & History
Nearly twenty years have passed by since I last saw this rather small standing stone – ‘small’ for Argyll that is! It’s near the corner of a field half-a-mile east of Taynuilt village, about 300 yards off the main Oban road. The Scottish Royal Commission (1974) chaps describe it quire accurately, telling it to be,
“a granite boulder, roughly triangular in shape at the base, and measuring 0.75 metre by 0.60 metre by 0.55 metre at ground-level. It now stands to a height of 1.2 metres (nearly four-feet tall in normal language! – Ed), but pieces have been split off in comparatively recent times and it may originally have been taller.”
It’s about time I got my arse back up ambling and exploring around this part of Scotland. Tis a gorgeous part of the world…
References:
- Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments, Scotland, Argyll – volume 2, HMSO: Edinburgh 1974.
© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian
