Quinish stone row
Quinish (also called Mingary) is a row of stones that used to be about 10.4 m long and is located northwest of Dervaig in the northwest of the Isle of Mull in Argyll and Bute in Scotland .
The Menhire ( English Standing Stones ) of Mull are unique for Scotland, as they often in rows ( Baliscate , Dervaig C , Kilmore and Maol Mor ) are arranged three to five stones.
The north-west-south-east oriented Quinish stones are in a pasture on the slope. There are four basalt menhirs , only one of which is in situ and the other three are lying. Earlier reports mention a fifth stone, which is missing today. The standing stone is over 2.7 m high and rectangular in cross-section. There it measures 0.45 × 0.33 m. Nearby are two fallen stones and a fourth pillar almost hidden in the ground.
On the site of the nearby Cuckoo House, Quinish's stone chest , without a capstone, is located near the sea and in which a small, grooved vessel was found in 1891.
See also
literature
- The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS): Mull, Tiree, Coll Northern Argyll (excluding the Early Medieval later monuments of Iona) (= Report. An Inventory of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. 21 = Argyll . An Inventory of the Acient Monuments. Vol. 3). HMSO, London et al. 1980, ISBN 0-11-491591-1 , pp. 66-67 no. 101.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 37 ′ 2.6 ″ N , 6 ° 13 ′ 3.9 ″ W.
