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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knockinaam Standing Stone Alternative Name: North Port O'Spittal
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.431 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Portpatrick
Map Ref: NX02695242
Latitude: 54.827645N Longitude: 5.073263W
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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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3	Ordinary
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1	Awful
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2 Access:

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
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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**Knockinaam Standing Stone** submitted by PaulM : Standing stone near Knockinaam Lodge Hotel This standing stone is quite small (~1.5 m) and unremarkable except for the hand recent agricultural development has dealt it. Set a little way back from the lane that runs from Portpatrick to Meikle Port of Spittal at NX027524 the stone has become partially buried by the recent construction of a haylage store. Fortunately the stone is easily acces... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Standing Stone (Menhir) in Dumfries and Galloway found just off the minor road going SE from Portpatrick. It is under threat from the silage heap beside it.

The stone is one of a series of standing stones down the Rhin of Galloway that start at Knock and Maize in the North and go right to the southern tip moving from west coast to east coast about half way down.

For more information see Canmore ID 60621, which adds: This stone stands at the corner of a modern enclosure on a gravel terrace 220m SE of North Port o'Spittal farmhouse; it is roughly square in section, measuring 0.7m by 0.6m at the base and 1.4m in height."
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NX0252 : Livestock transportation business, Port of Spittal by Oliver Dixon — by Oliver Dixon
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NX0252 : Farm buildings, North Port o' Spittal by Leslie Barrie — by Leslie Barrie
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NX0252 : North Port o' Spittal by Leslie Barrie — by Leslie Barrie
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NX0252 : Remains of mill dam by Richard Sutcliffe — by Richard Sutcliffe
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