Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678502

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN80SW 5 8109 0218

(NN 8109 0218) Gathering Stone (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1959)

See also NN80SW 1 and NN80SW 16.

A block of Highland grit, or, according to Hunter "three grey boulders" at the junction of which the standard of the Scottish clans is said to have been placed. Enclosed in an iron cage in 1840, which bears the following inscription: "The Gathering Stone of the Highland army on the day of the memorable battle of Sheriffmuir, fought in November 1715 ..." It is called locally Battle Stone and is said to have been formerly known as the Beltane Stane. Has the appearance, "as far as it can now been seen", of an overthrown standing stone.

T Hunter 1883; A F Hutchison 1893.

A large stone c.2.0m long, split into three parts. It is likely to have been a standing stone. Known by some local people as the "Battle Stone" but not as the "Beltane Stane".

Visited by OS (W D J) 8 June 1967.

Karling Stone.

Information from Plan of Sheriffmuir by J Lesslie, 1766, 1/11600 scale.