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Description |
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Complex
setting of standing stones which lies 250m SE of Temple
Wood stone circle. Two pairs of standing stones lie approximately
64 metres apart with a small group of four stones and another of five
stones between them. Recent geophysical survey suggests other features
and earthworks may have been associated with the settings. |
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The
tallest of the southernmost pair of stones is 2.8m high and has 3
cupmarks on one face, the tallest of the group of five stones is also
2.8m high and has 40 cupmarks on one face, while the tallest of the
northernmost pair of stones is again 2.8m high and the smaller of the
pair has three cupmarks. |
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Another
stone lies 100m away from the northern end and the stump of another
(discovered in 1973) lies 300m away from the southern end. |
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Archeoastronomers
believe that this complex site could track the movements of the sun and
moon and therefor be used to predict such events as eclipses. |
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Excavation Details |
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Excavated in 1973.
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Access /
Ownership |
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This
site, although located on private land is due to have a formal public
access opened in the spring of 1998 via a new car park 1km south of
Kilmartin at the Crinan turn off. |
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Published References |
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- PSAS, 6 (1864-6), 338
- Campbell & Sandeman, 21, no.146
- Campbell & Sandeman, 34, no.242
- Morris, 110, ARG 68
- DES (1982), 22
- Glasgow Herald, 1 September 1973
- DES (1973), 13
- Kist, 8 (1974), 6
- Hawkins, "Mindsteps to the Cosmos"
(1983), 100-2
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