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Latitude: 56.6175 / 56°37'2"N
Longitude: -6.2175 / 6°13'3"W
OS Eastings: 141353
OS Northings: 755250
OS Grid: NM413552
Mapcode National: GBR CC17.0W7
Mapcode Global: WGYBS.GXHT
Entry Name: Ach' nan Carragh, standing stones
Scheduled Date: 10 February 2003
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM10557
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
Location: Kilninian and Kilmore
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises a number of standing stones of prehistoric date. One of the stones is visible as an upstanding monument; the others are recumbent or fragmentary.
The standing stones lie on a level terrace on the W side of the track leading to Mingary. At the present time only a single stone, standing 2.7m high and measuring 0.7m by 0.6m at the base, is still erect. This stone, aligned N to S and leaning slightly, rises with straightish sides to a rounded top. Some 3m to the NE is a fallen stone 3.6m long, 1.1m broad and 0.5m thick. Both these stones are of basalt.
At a distance of some 8m to the NE there is the stump of another stone, while various fragments of stones, doubtless from the same group, are visible in the near vicinity.
The monument relates to ritual activity of Neolithic or Bronze Age date, probably in the second millennium BC. There is no evidence that the stones formed a circle, but they may have formed an alignment.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material is likely to survive. It is sub-rectangular in shape, measuring 20m NW-SE by 10.8m NE-SW, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric ritual practices. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NM45NW 5.
References:
ORDNANCE SURVEY NAME BOOK (COUNTY), Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey Book No. 69, 14.
RCAHMS (1980) ARGYLL: AN INVENTORY OF THE MONUMENTS VOLUME 3: MULL, TIREE, COLL AND NORTHERN ARGYLL (EXCLUDING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL AND LATER MONUMENTS OF IONA), Edinburgh, 70, No. 111.
Thom A (1967a) MEGALITHIC SITES IN BRITAIN, Oxford, 139, No. M 1/3.
Thom A (1971) MEGALITHIC LUNAR OBSERVATORIES, Oxford, 66, No. M 1/3.
Thom A and Thom A S (1979) 'The standing stones in Argyllshire', GLASGOW ARCHAEOL J, 6, 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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