Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689250

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO45SE 1 4623 5388.

(NO 4623 5388) Standing Stones (NR) (3 shown)

OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)

Three stones situated in the wood near to Carse Gray mansion house. They are said to be Druidical remains.

Name Book 1861.

These three large boulders are situated close together in a small triangle, being 3.6m apart. The largest boulder lies to the NE and measures 1.5m x 1.2m x 1.0m. That to the NW is 1.2m x 1.0m x 0.5m. The third is recumbent and thickly overgrown with vegetation.

Visited by OS (JLD) 15 August 1958.

Listed as a (?) four-poster.

H A W Burl 1971.

The westernmost of the three surviving stones of the is probable 'four-poster' was knocked down by a wind-thrown tree early in 1993. The stone was re-erected by the estate under the supervision of the area Inspector and warden. Investigation of the socket prior to re-erection revealed white quartz fragments and pebbles.

Sponsor: Historic scotland.

G J Barclay 1993.