Site type STANDING STONE(S)
Canmore ID 29649
Site Number NO17SW 56
NGR NO 1212 7318
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish KIRKMICHAEL (PERTH AND KINROSS)
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NO17SW 1212 7318

Situated on a terrace on the W side of Gleann Beag 1km SW of Rhiedorrach, and incorporated into a later farmstead (NO17SW 15), there are the probable remains of a prehistoric stone-setting, either a pair of standing stones or possibly a four-poster. Two narrow slabs, 3m apart and in line, remain erect; the E stone is 1.1m high by 0.8m wide and 0.45m thick, and the W stone, which is free-standing, is 1.3m high by 1m wide and 0.3m thick at the base. Both stones are aligned roughly NE-SW and the E stone forms part of the NW corner of a later rectangular building. 3.6m NW of the W stone there is a large boulder (1.4m long by 0.9m wide and 0.4m thick) which, like a second recumbent boulder (1.6m long by 0.4m wide and 0.2m thick), has been built into the SE angle of a later rectangular building. The latter stone lies 3.9m from the E stone and the recumbent pair may have once formed the W side of an original setting of four stones.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 24 February 1988.
RCAHMS 1990

RCAHMS (1990a) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. North-east Perth: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh
Page(s): 24, No.73 Held at RCAHMS A.1.7.PER