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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ardnacross South - Stone Row / Alignment in Scotland in Isle of Mull

Submitted by cosmic on Tuesday, 01 October 2002  Page Views: 10387

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ardnacross South
Country: Scotland County: Isle of Mull Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Tobermory  Nearest Village: Salen
Map Ref: NM5419049135  Landranger Map Number: 47
Latitude: 56.569593N  Longitude: 6.003098W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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SandyG visited on 4th Jun 2016 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 2 Parking available at NM 54770 48758 and access from the highway at NM 54592 49183. Follow track to NM 54523 49119 then head up the hill to the row.

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by cosmic : Ardnacross upright stone from West (Vote or comment on this photo)
Multiple Stone Rows (Alignment) in Mull

Update August 2019: There are two stone rows and three kerbed cairns making up this site. All three now have their own site pages. See Ardnacross North and Ardnacross Cairns in nearby sites below.

The southern stone row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Ardnacross, South, which includes photographs, a plan of the north and south rows and their associated cairns, plus links to other online resources and access information.

Both rows and their associated cairns are also recorded as Canmore ID 22265, which gives details of excavations in the 1990s. The SRoGB also gives a link to the excavation report (North Mull Project, Excavations at Ardnacross 1989-91) - click on Journal for the History of Astronomy, Archaeoastronomy Supplement, Vol. 24, p.S55 for more information.

DavidHoyle has also provided a link to Lunar Sites Scotland: Ardnacross, Island of Mull for more information.
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Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Energyman : A hazy sunrise on the equinox (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Bladup : Ardnacross. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Bladup (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Bladup : Ardnacross standing stone plus part of a kerb cairn in the foreground. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Anne T : SandyG's plan of the north and south rows at Ardnacross, showing their relationship to the three cairns. Survey carried out by SandyG in June 2016; scale 1:200. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by SandyG : Kerbed cairns in the foreground and the row beyond. View from the north west. 4th June 2016.

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by SandyG : Kerbed cairn in the foreground and upright forming part of the Southern stone row at Ardnacross. View from north west. 4th June 2016.

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by SandyG : South Ardnacross stone row in the foreground with cairns and northern row in the background. View from the south east (Scale 1m). 4th June 2016.

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Energyman : The line from the E edge of the prostrate stone (where I think it is as it's under vegetation) to the base of the standing stone is exactly N-S meaning when the stone was upright the noon shadow would clip the edge. (2 comments)

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by Bladup : Ardnacross.

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by cosmic : Cairn and upright stone from West

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by cosmic : View along row with upright

Ardnacross South
Ardnacross South submitted by cosmic : Upright plus one fallen from East

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 11m WNW 293° Ardnacross Cairns* Cairn (NM54184914)
 47m NNW 343° Ardnacross North* Stone Row / Alignment (NM5417949181)
 1.2km NE 47° An Sean Chaisteal* Broch or Nuraghe (NM55104988)
 1.3km NE 36° Ardnacross Cairn* Cairn (NM55025014)
 3.4km SW 228° Ledmore Crannog (NM51514696)
 4.7km SW 230° Tenga (Mull)* Stone Circle (NM50394631)
 6.0km SSE 164° Cnoc Na Sroine* Stone Fort or Dun (NM55534330)
 6.5km NW 316° Balliscate* Stone Row / Alignment (NM49965413)
 7.2km S 178° Killichronan* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NM540419)
 7.6km S 179° Torr Nam Fiann* Stone Fort or Dun (NM53904157)
 7.6km S 186° Kellan Wood Stone Fort or Dun (NM52914163)
 7.7km NW 319° Dun Urgadul Stone Fort or Dun (NM49475527)
 9.4km S 176° Gruline 2* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NM543397)
 9.5km S 175° Gruline 1* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NM54553959)
 9.8km S 174° Carn Ban (Mull)* Cairn (NM54653934)
 9.9km W 272° Torr Aint* Hillfort (NM44265005)
 10.5km WNW 281° Priest's Well (Dervaig)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (NM440518)
 10.6km WNW 282° Dervaig 3* Standing Stones (NM43935189)
 10.6km WNW 282° Dervaig D Stone Row / Alignment (NM43935189)
 10.6km W 280° Dervaig SSE* Stone Row / Alignment (NM4385951655)
 10.6km WNW 282° Dervaig centre* Stone Row / Alignment (NM43905203)
 10.9km W 277° Aintuim Cairn Round Cairn (NM43445103)
 11.2km W 271° Torr A'chlachain, Mull Hillfort (NM42945000)
 11.2km WNW 287° Maol Mor* Stone Row / Alignment (NM4360453056)
 11.6km W 280° Torr A'mhanaich Hillfort (NM42855192)
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Re: Ardnacross by DavidHoyle on Tuesday, 17 March 2020
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I think this site has two separate rows, the first one (NW Row) is at this location and the second row (SE) is close to 56.569598, -6.002995 (NM 54196 49137). This second row has the only remaining upright stone.
It may be worth splitting this into two separate sites.
There is a good description of the two rows at Ardnacross, Island of Mull.

Thanks,
David
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    Re: Ardnacross by Anne T on Tuesday, 17 March 2020
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    Hi, DavidHoyle, Many thanks for your comment. As you can see from the main site text, you are correct - there are indeed two stone rows at Ardnacross - North and South, both of which have separate entries on Sandy G's Stone Rows of Great Britain website (click on the names of the rows to see Sandy's information).

    The problem with splitting this particular site page is trying to identify which photographs belong to which of the stone rows (north or south). I have been working with Sandy G to make sure his site and the Portal are in sync, and to split stone row sites where necessary; this is one of the sites still needing action. If you can help with the photo identification, by posting a comment against each photo to say whether it belongs to the north or the south row, that would be brilliant. Sorry not to be more helpful at the moment, but hopefully we'll be able to get it sorted soon. Thanks in advance!
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      Re: Ardnacross by Anne T on Tuesday, 17 March 2020
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      Just to add that I've this evening had an email exchange with Sandy G, and he's confirmed which photos belong to which row. He's also added that ideally there should be an additional site page(s) for the 3 cairns. If anyone would like to create the new site pages in preparation for the photos to be moved across, that would be great. Otherwise I'll have to come back and do this over this coming weekend. Any issues, please post another comment here. Thanks.
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        Re: Ardnacross by Andy B on Tuesday, 17 March 2020
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        Hello Anne, Canmore only have one listing for the whole complex
        https://canmore.org.uk/site/22265/ardnacross-mull
        We could do one page for each row and possibly one for the group of cairns - do you know what the map ref for the cairns is? Sandy's plan shows them in between the two rows. But three pages possibly not essential.
        Thanks
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          Re: Ardnacross by Anne T on Tuesday, 17 March 2020
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          Hi, Andy, Yes, it was because Canmore had the one entry for the complex that I kept this as one site page when linking in SRoGB sites. I know Sandy G would prefer the rows to be split onto separate pages, as he and I have had previous correspondence about this.

          Canmore gives the grid reference for one of the cairns: NM 5418 4914, and I can work out the others from the detailed, scaled plan on the excavation report and aerial photographs, but as all three cairns are so close together, I agree that one site page for all three would make sense.

          Thanks for the input. Will sort this out shortly.
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            Re: Ardnacross by Anne T on Sunday, 22 March 2020
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            There is now a separate site page for both stone rows and the cairns (as the cairns are so close together they have been incorporated into just the one site page). In keeping with all other pages with links to SRoGB, I've kept to the names that SandyG has used (Ardnacross North, Ardnacross South), rather than North West and South East, as referred to in the Lunar Sites Scotland link given by DavidHoyle above.

            I've split the photographs across the site pages; hopefully these should be correct (thanks to SandyG for the guidance on this), but if anyone finds anything wrong, please post a comment here and I'll be happy to correct it. I've also included a copy of Sandy's survey plan on each of the site pages, so it is easy to understand the layout of these complex, but interesting sites. Thanks.
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Re: Ardnacross by Energyman on Wednesday, 21 September 2016
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I made it 56.5695383N 6.002995W accurate to + or - 4.2m.
A lovely site with good views, and easy to reach from the road. Go through the two gates, then take the one on the immediate R without going into the farmyard. Stay out on the ridge.

If you take a line from the eastern end of the prostrate stone, through the base of the largest standing stone, it is exactly N-S, meaning the noon shadow would clip the edge.
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