<< Text Pages >> River Balgy (Shieldaig) - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Highlands
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: River Balgy (Shieldaig)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 5.0 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Highlands Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Village: Balgy
Map Ref: NG849533
Latitude: 57.518604N Longitude: 5.593508W
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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Sited between Loch Damh and Upper Loch Torridon, the Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this standing stone - see their entry for River Balgy, Shieldaig, Ross & Cromarty.
TNA gives directions for finding this stone, found in the 1980s, together with a photograph. TNA tells us: "This is a small but chunky standing stone was rediscovered by Dr J. Havelock Fidler in the 1980s. Less than four-feet tall, it stands alone at the edge of the boggy landscape, with superb views all around ... There are other human remains scattered amidst the rocky landscape close by, including the remains of old buildings not far away, but this prehistoric monolith seems to be an isolated example. However, the landscape here is so vast that it’s highly likely that other standing stones remain hidden in these ancient mythic hills…"
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