Eskdalemuir, 'stone Avenue'
Natural Feature(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eskdalemuir, 'stone Avenue'
Classification Natural Feature(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Loupin' Stanes; Girdle Stanes
Canmore ID 67246
Site Number NY29NE 24
NGR NY 2554 9643
NGR Description NY 254 962 to NY 257 966
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Eskdalemuir
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY29NE 24 254 962 to 257 966.
Appearances suggest that an 'avenue' of stones once existed between the Loupin' Stanes (NY29NE 11) and the Girdle Stanes (NY29NE13).
J and R Hyslop 1912
There are several erratic boulders between NY29NE 11 and NY29NE 13 but there is insufficient evidence to suggest that these formed an avenue of stones.
Visited by OS (IA) 16 October 1973
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (MJF) 1 September 1978.
Field Visit (June 1980)
Girdle Stanes NY 253 961 NY29NE 13 & 24
On the E bank of the River White Esk, 300m NNW of Cote farmhouse, there is a stone circle measuring about 39m in diameter. The W arc has been destroyed by river erosion but around the E there are eleven upright stones (between 0.8m and 1.8m in height) and eleven fallen stones which are irregularly spaced along the inner edge of what is probably an old plantation bank. Nothing remains of an 'avenue' of stones recorded between this monument and the Loupin' Stanes (NY29NE 11& 25).
RCAHMS 1980, visited June 1980
(Christison 1897; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 42; RCAHMS 1920, p. 78, No. 198; Burl 1976, 356; Burl 1979, 170-1)
