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Latitude: 56.2972 / 56°17'49"N
Longitude: -6.2171 / 6°13'1"W
OS Eastings: 139188
OS Northings: 719633
OS Grid: NM391196
Mapcode National: GBR CD12.71Z
Mapcode Global: WGYDB.GZPD
Entry Name: Druim Fan, standing stone 450m NE of Uisken House, Mull
Scheduled Date: 20 March 2003
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7766
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
Location: Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises a standing stone of prehistoric date. Standing stones relate to ritual activity of Neolithic or Bronze Age date (around the late third to second millennium BC).
The standing stone is situated in an isolated spot on Druim Fan moorland, some 450m NE of Uisken House, at a height of about 60m OD. This impressive stone with its squared-off top stands about 2.15m high and is between 1.1m and 1.5m wide. It is aligned roughly NE-SW and now leans slightly towards the SE.
There are slight indications that a cairn of stones, spread to roughly 10m by 8m and standing about 0.5m high, may lie immediately N of and abutting the standing stone, although it is obscured by vegetation.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the standing stone and the possible cairn and an area around them within which related evidence is likely to survive. It is an elongated oval in shape, with maximum dimensions of 18m W-E by 12m N-S, and with the standing stone itself some 4m from the E edge of the area to be scheduled, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric ritual practices. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NM31NE 2.
Photographs:
RCAHMS 1972, ref 53913
References:
RCAHMS (1980) ARGYLL: AN INVENTORY OF THE MONUMENTS VOLUME 3: MULL, TIREE, COLL AND NORTHERN ARGYLL (EXCLUDING THE EARLY MEDIEVAL AND LATER MONUMENTS OF IONA, Edinburgh: HMSO, 67-8, No. 103.
Thom A (1967) MEGALITHIC SITES IN BRITAIN, Oxford, 100. 139, No. M 2/10.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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