Monument record MHG6837 - Upper Port

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Location

Grid reference Centred NJ 0537 2913 (40m by 40m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NJ02NE
Old County MORAYSHIRE
Civil Parish CROMDALE, INVERALLAN AND ADVIE
Geographical Area BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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Full Description

NJ02NE 2 054 290.

(A: NJ 0533 2912) (B: NJ 0540 2913) (C: NJ 0546 2906) (D: NJ 0547 2906) Stones (NAT) (Twice)
OS 6"map, (1938)

The stones are not shown on first edition 6"map, but are scheduled as 'standing stones - Upper Port - Grantown-on-Spey'.
OS 6"map, Morayshire, 1st ed., (1868)

The remains of a stone circle, described in the captions to the illustrations as 'standing stones'.
Ther are four stones, three of which (A, C and D) range in height from 4ft 3ins to 5ft 3 1/2ins. The height of the fourth is not quoted.
F R Coles 1907.

Four standing stones, situated in a cultivated field. Stone 'B' is 1.0m high. Stone 'A' is the only one with a packing of small stones at the base.
There is nothing to suggest that these stones are part of a circle.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 1 September 1966.


Coles, F R, 1907, 'Report on stone circles surveyed in the North-East of Scotland (Banffshire and Moray), with measured plans and drawings; obtained under the Gunning Fellowship', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 41 1906-7, p.130-72, 131 (Text/Publication/Article). SHG1403.

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  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Coles, F R. 1907. 'Report on stone circles surveyed in the North-East of Scotland (Banffshire and Moray), with measured plans and drawings; obtained under the Gunning Fellowship', Proc Soc Antiq Scot Vol. 41 1906-7, p.130-72. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 130-72. 131.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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