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Submitted by cosmic on Saturday, 07 August 2004  Page Views: 7468

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tom Nan Carragh Alternative Name: Dulnainbridge; Ballintomb
Country: Scotland County: Highlands Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Inverness  Nearest Village: Dulnain Bridge
Map Ref: NJ0110824642
Latitude: 57.301618N  Longitude: 3.642897W
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
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 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.
2 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
4

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SandyG visited on 7th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Limited car parking is available at NJ 01411 25455. Carefully cross the public highway and walk down the farm road to Lower Graich. Walk past the farm yard and follow the track to Tom nan Carragh.

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Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by cosmic : Tom Nan Carragh at NJ011246 in Highland region is a dog leg of three stones. The end stones are not visible form each other due to the lie of the land although all three stones are about seven feet high and about 100m apart. The bearing between the East stone and the middle is about 40 degrees whilst between the middle and West it is nearer 80 degrees. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stones in the Highlands. These three standing stones (all of which are about seven feet tall) form a dogleg with the end stones not visible from each other.

They stand on the flood plain of the River Spey and are visible from the A95.

Update August 2019: This row is featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for Tom nan Carragh, which includes a description, photographs, a plan of the row from a recent survey in July 2018, plus access information. The SRoGB tells us this is a possible single stone row made up of three large upright stones and three recumbent slabs, 286m long; they raise the question of counting these stones as a group of paired stones. They also note that the westernmost stone has 2 or 3 cup marks on its upper surface.

The row is also recorded as:
Canmore ID 15720 (Standing Stone);
Canmore ID 15721 (Standing Stone); and
Canmore ID 15722 (Two standing stones, only one of which is erect).
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Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by golux : Tom Nan Carragh 4 ??? This recumbent stone makes a fourth in the Tom Nan Carragh row. It is situated at NJ 0097 2451, roughly in line with the other three stones, but does not appear on the OS map. I have checked OS maps as far back as 1871: they all show the other three stones of Tom nan Carragh but not this one. The RCAHMS webpage for Tom Nan Carragh 3 mentions a report of 1986: "80y... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by cosmic : Eastern stone (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tom Nan Carragh submitted by PeteCrane5 : The stone line looking NE, Autum 2022. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Plan of Tom nan Carragh stone row showing the position of the numbered stoners (Source GPS survey by Sandy Gerrard). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 6 measures 1.8m long by 0.49m wide, stands 0.18m high above the ground surface and is orientated at 145°. Stones 2 and 4 are visible from this stone. View from south west (Scale 1m). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 5 measures 1.82m long by 0.52m wide, stands up to 0.4m high above the ground surface and is orientated at 115°. View from north west (Scale 1m).

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stones 5 and 6 are situated on a terrace. Other stones lying between them are probably the result of field clearance. It is not known whether stones 5 and 6 are close to their original positions or have been removed from elsewhere. Their positions are however consistent with them originally forming part of a stone row. Stone 5 has two or possibly three cup-marks on its upper face.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 4 on the left and stone 2 on the right. View from the south.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 4 measures 0.73m long by 0.30 wide, stands up to 2m high and is orientated at 45°. The stone points towards stone 2 suggesting that they both form part of the same broad construction. View from south west (Scale 1m).

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 3 lies beside upright stone 4. Excavations in 1988 revealed a socket measuring 0.7m by 0.56m cut into the subsoil. Packing stones up to 0.3m in diameter were found but no other finds were recovered. The stone measures 2m long by 0.42m wide, stands 0.44m high above the ground surface and is orientated at 119°.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 2 measures 0.74m long by 0.36m wide, stands up to 2.25m high and is orientated at 63° towards stone 1. View from south west (Scale 1m).

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 in the foreground and stone 2 beyond. Stone 1 measures 0.68m long by 0.38m wide, stands up to 2.1m high and is orientated at 72°. View from north east.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stone 1 in foreground and stone 2 beyond. These stones are now separated by a small quarry although there was probably always a small valley between them. View from north east.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : Stones 1 and 2. View from the north.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : View from the north east showing the landscape context of the row. The position of Stones 1 and 2 are highlighted. The remaining stones are not visible from this location. The Cairngorm Mountains provide a dramatic backdrop for this row.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by SandyG : The central length of the row. View from south west.

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by cosmic : Tom Nan Carragh at NJ011246 in Highland region is a dog leg of three stones. The end stones are not visible form each other due to the lie of the land although all three stones are about seven feet high and about 100m apart. The bearing between the East stone and the middle is about 40 degrees whilst between the middle and West it is nearer 80 degrees. (1 comment)

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Tom Nan Carragh submitted by cosmic

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by cosmic : Middle stone

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by Andy B : Part of the Burnham family holiday to Tomintoul, Moray in August 2003

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by Andy B

Tom Nan Carragh
Tom Nan Carragh submitted by Andy B

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Re: Tom Nan Carragh by golux on Thursday, 27 October 2011
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The header text on this page says that these stones stand "on the flood plain of the River Spey" which would be a risky place to put them. Although located within the flood plain of the Spey, they stand on a small hill as their name implies ("tom" is gaelic for hillock).
"Carragh" is gaelic for rock, cliff, pillar, monument, and as this small hill appears to be an accumulation of sediment piled up into a rounded grassy mound devoid of any visible rock, it may be that in this case the land is named after the stones, rather than the other way round.
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