Site Name: Knockrome 1, Jura
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Standing Stone
Council: Argyll and Bute
Parish: Jura
Map Sheet: NR57SE
Grid Reference: 155030, 671480
Canmore Number: 38270
Non-Statutory Register Code: C
WoSASPIN 2863
NR57SE 3 5503 7148.
(NR 5503 7148) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This standing stone measures 4ft 5ins in height, width 1ft 2ins, with a rounded top, and about 9ins thick.
E H Rideout 1932.
This stone, measuring 1.3m high, 0.6m broad and 0.2m thick is as described above.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 5 May 1978.
Thom and Thom, A and A S , 'The standing stones in Argyllshire', Glasgow Archaeol J, Vol 6, 1979, pp.5-10.(1979)
Thom, A , Megalithic lunar observatories. Oxford.(1971)
Rideout, E H , 'Standing stones and other antiquities in Jura', PSAS, Vol 66, 1931-2, pp.146-51.(1932)
RCAHMS , The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments Vol 5: Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay. Edinburgh.(1984)