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Standing stone in Longstone

Standing stone
Standing stone in Longstone
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On a slight NW-facing slope on the NW side of a small gently sloping hillock, in undulating pasture. The standing stone (TS058-023004-) at Longstone Hill is visible 800m to the SW. A fine-grained sandstone standing stone (W0.38m x 0.33m; H 1.15m), rectangular in plan. It is solidly set with no packing stones visible. The upper portion of the stone tapers to a point. The surface of the stone is weathered.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS058-079

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Hywel Williams, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; CaitNi, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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