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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Leacaichluaine Alternative Name: Dunamuck stonesCountry: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Lochgilphead Nearest Village: Kilmartin
Map Ref: NR84839232
Latitude: 56.075144N Longitude: 5.458999W
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 |
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| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
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| 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 |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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SandyG visited on 14th Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Parking is available at NR 84994 92222. From here walk through gate and head north across the field to NR 84910 92315. A small burn will need to be crossed.
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The following information is taken from Canmore ID 39580: Two large stones, similar to the ancient standing stones, but not standing on end (Ordnance Survey Name Book - ONB 1867). 18th century papers call them "Leacaichluaine". They measure 13' x 5'6" and 10'2" x 5' (Campbell and Sandeman 1964).
(Campbell and Sandeman, quoting Simpson (1868) as a sub-reference, state that one of the stones is sculptured with a cup mark, and an oval cavity 6" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/2", which they could not find. Reading this in context, however, shows that Simpson is referring to NR89SW 27, when describing these marks.)
Refs: Name Book 1867; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; J Y Simpson 1868.
NR 8484 9233. Two large prostrate slabs, the westerly of which measures 3.1m by 1.4m by 0.4m, while the other is 4.0m by 1.7m by 0.4m. Neither bears any trace of artificial markings. There is no reason to believe that these stones were not originally standing upright.
There are three groups of standing stones situated NW and NE of Dunamuck on the level ground on the W side of the River Add.
About 470m E of Dunamuck there is the third group, consisting of two stones 3.2m apart, both now fallen (Campbell and Sandeman 1964. The more northerly measures 1.75m by 0.23m and up to 4.lm in length, and the other stone 1.4m by 0.3m and 3.1m in length.
Dunamuck, Cairn.
NR 848 923
In a field above standing stones NR89SW 27 and on the higher ground, are the fallen standing stones NR89SW 24, with the remains of three large cairns - one of them within a few feet of NR89SW 24. 'There are stones also showing the remains of three circles and cairns in the adjoining and lower field, but their true appearance have lately been destroyed by blasting with gunpowder.'
J Y Simpson 1868.
One of Simpson's (1868) "three large cairns" appears to be a house ruin. A spread cairn lies just above NR89SW 24 with a smaller cairn below it. Now very faint.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
NR 8481 9234. About 25.0m to the W of the recumbent standing stones (NR89SW 24) is a sub-oval area of stony uncultivated ground measuring 18.5m N-S by 16.0m transversely. It is grass-covered and has large stones dumped upon it. The irregular shape of this feature and the absence of any recognisable kerbing make it impossible to determine whether it represents the remains of a cairn or is merely an outcrop of rock. Within this area is a heap of modern field clearance 5.0m in diameter.
NR 8489 9231. On lower ground to the E of NR89SW 24 is a low, amorphous grass-covered stony mound 8.0m E-W by 4.0m.
There is nothing about this feature to suggest its being a burial cairn. There is no trace of any other feature resembling either a cairn or a 'circle' in this vicinity.
Two mounds, both much denuded by ploughing, lie respectively l6.6m NW and 42m ESE of the fallen standing stones (NR89SW 24) and about 450m ENE of Dunamuck. They measure 8.5m by 16m and 0.6m in height and 7.8m by 4m and 0.3m in height respectively, and may represent the only surviving remains of 'three large cairns' whose existence is mentioned in 1862 (one of them said to be 'in a few feet of the recumbent monoliths'). (Campbell and Sandeman 1964; PSAS 1864-6) Three 'circles and cairns, which had been destroyed by gunpowder, are described as lying in an adjacent field, but these have left no visible remains.
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