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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Skelpick Stone Rows Alternative Name: Dail Na DrochaideCountry: Scotland County: Highlands Type: Multiple Stone Rows / Avenue
Nearest Town: Thurso Nearest Village: Skelpick / Leckfurin
Map Ref: NC722574 Landranger Map Number: 10
Latitude: 58.486017N Longitude: 4.193763W
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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Multiple Stone Rows in Highland, possibly five in total.
Update October 2019: This now destroyed stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Dail Na Drochaide (Skelpick), which tells us this row was destroyed in 1982. It was: "A fan-shaped multiple stone row measuring 31m long, including at least 37 small-sized stones arranged in at least 5 separate lines and situated on a gentle west facing slope within the valley of the River Naver … (it) was orientated north to south and stood in an area containing a number of prehistoric cairns, settlements and burnt mounds".
The SRoGB includes a simplified plan of the row from a survey by L.J. Myatt from the Caithness Field Club Bulletin The Multiple Stone Rows of Caithness and Sutherland, 3. Their Description II (1983).
The row is also recorded as Canmore ID 6237 and as MHG10787 (Stone Rows, Dail Na Crochaide) on the Highland HER.
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