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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: North Beachmore (Muasdale) Alternative Name: Gaigean (Muasdale)Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Campbelltown Nearest Village: Beacharr / Beachmore
Map Ref: NR69284184
Latitude: 55.615279N Longitude: 5.665397W
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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Standing Stone (Menhir) with unusual cup and ring carvings in Argyll
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this cup and ring standing stone - see their entry for North Beachmore, Muasdale, Argyll, which gives a detailed archaeology & history and includes a drawing of the North Beachmore stone.
This prehistoric stone is also recorded as Canmore ID 38589, an entry from 1977 by RWB Morris describing this as "An unusual group of cup and ring markings occurs on a stone situated 345m E of North Beachmore farmhouse at a height of 120m OD. Measuring 0.9m by 0.3m at the base, and standing to a height of 1.5m, the stone now serves as the N gatepost of an entrance in the wall through which a track leading eastward from the farm passes from the arable ground to the open hill beyond. The stone is now leaning at an angle of 45 with the decorated surface facing SW. The markings consist largely of plain cups, but one cup is accompanied by a partial single ring which measures 0.11m across. At the foot of the lower half of the stone four cups linked by broad gutters form a curious branched pattern, and a similar combination of three cups and gutters occurs in the upper half, while in two other instances a pair of cups are joined by a short straight channel to form a dumb-bell figure. The remainder of the markings comprise twelve oblong or kidney-shaped hollows measuring up to 0.15m in length by 0.064m in breadth, and thirty-one plain cups ranging from 0.038m to 0.076m in diameter, the largest being 0.019m deep."
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