WoSAS Pin: 4839

Site Name: Kingarth

Alternative Name(s): Larzigean

Monument Type: Standing Stones

Council: Argyll and Bute

Parish: Kingarth

Map Sheet: NS05NE

Grid Reference: 208460, 655360

Canmore Number: 40257

Non-Statutory Register Code: S

Site Report

WoSASPIN 4839

(NS 0846 5536) Standing Stones (NR)
OS 6" map, (1957)

Three large whinstone boulders stand in a line on Largizean farm. About 10ft apart, they measure respectively 5ft 2ins high by 4ft 2ins broad, 5ft 6ins by 3ft 4ins and 7ft 3ins by 4ft 10ins.
J K Hewison 1893.

NS 0846 5535. Three standing stones, 3.5 metres apart, stand on a line running NW-SE. From the NW they measure 1.5m high by 1.3m by 0.8m, 1.7m high by 1m by 1m, and 1.9m high by 1.6m by 1.2m.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (B S) 25 October 1976.

Further Reading and Sources

Hewison, J K , The isle of Bute in the olden time. Edinburgh.(1893)

Marshall, D N , History of Bute. (Revised Edition).(1992)