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Latitude: 58.22 / 58°13'11"N
Longitude: -6.2108 / 6°12'38"W
OS Eastings: 152821
OS Northings: 933417
OS Grid: NB528334
Mapcode National: GBR C710.3Y8
Mapcode Global: WGY31.KNPC
Entry Name: Cnoc nan Dursainean,standing stone 500m NE of
Scheduled Date: 24 February 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5342
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
Location: Stornoway
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Sgire an Rubha
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument is a standing stone, probably erected in the late Bronze Age, situated on a low mound above the N bank of a stream, the Allt na Muilne.
The stone, of Lewisian Gneiss, has a triangular profile measuring 1.7m high, 1.9m wide and 0.5m thick. It is situated on the S portion of a mound c.1.5m high and measuring 21m N-S by 15m E-W. There is a slight depression (4m in diameter) round the stone holding several small embedded boulders. There is an area of loose stones immediately N of the mound.
The area to be scheduled is circular and has a maximum diameter of 25m to include the standing stone and surrounding mound as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance in its own right as a field monument and as an element of a landscape rich in ritual monuments of presumed Late Bronze Age date which is concentrated in the Eye Peninsula.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NB 53 SW 7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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