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Submitted by Anne T on Sunday, 11 February 2001 Page Views: 9106
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Inveraray CastleCountry: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Inveraray
Map Ref: NN0946809048 Landranger Map Number: 56
Latitude: 56.235671N Longitude: 5.075767W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Anne T visited on 16th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Inveraray Castle Standing Stone: On our way from our daughter’s house to Craignish peninsula (having had the trauma of catching their cat and taking her to the cattery first!) we decided to stop of in Invarary to see our first standing stone of this part of the trip. Mistake.
We arrived the day before the Highland Games at the castle started, so the town was heaving, both with coach tours of largely American tourists, and people attending the games. There was a large funfair on the grass by the harbour, which didn’t aid the flow of traffic through the town.
We managed to turn up the entrance into the castle, only Andrew had to stay in the car whilst I ran out onto the grassy show-ground area to take photographs of the stone. I chuckled to think what the delivery drivers and people putting up the marquees and stands must have thought of this woman running around the stone with a camera must have thought!
For more information see Canmore ID 23366, the latest entry of which is from a visit made in 1981: "This standing stone is situated in the policies of Inverary Castle about 210m SW of the castle. Now leaning slightly to the SE, it measures 1.3m by 0.5m at the base and 2.8m in height, and rises with straight sides to a sloping top. Its long axis is aligned NNE - SSW."
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