<< Our Photo Pages >> Dunamuck South - Standing Stones in Scotland in Argyll
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Dunamuck South Alternative Name: Dunamuck 2, The Dancing StonesCountry: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Cairnbaan
Map Ref: NR8484192493 Landranger Map Number: 55
Latitude: 56.076700N Longitude: 5.458961W
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 |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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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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 |
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1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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SandyG visited on 14th Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 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. Follow the well marked footpath to enter the field containing the Dunamuck, South stone pair.
SolarMegalith visited on 28th Apr 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
snakefarmer have visited here
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
The south-eastern stone has a single cup mark about two feet up from the ground surface. The two stones are only around 0.35m thick and appear to line up with the hill on which the dun of Dunadd was later built.
These standing stones are recorded as Canmore ID 29583, which tells us this is the second group of three stones situated NE and NW of Dunamuck on level ground west of the River Add. The more northerly stone of these two stands 2.75 metres high; the other stone stands 4 metres high with a pointed top, with a single cup mark 0.9 metres from its base on its western face, which Canmore says is probably of natural origin.
Update October 2019: For information on how this stone pair relates to the nearby Dunamuck stone row, see the Stone Rows of Great Britain's entry for Dunamuck, North, which includes annotated photographs illustrating the visual relationship between these two monuments.
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