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Field Visit
Date 18 May 1989
Event ID 1096078
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096078
A probable pair of standing stones and a small recumbent boulder have been incorporated into a small heather garden in the playground of St Madoes primary school. The stones were not disturbed during the building of the school, but a low stone revetment has been constructed around the base of the setting, and the level of what is now the playground has been reduced by anything up to about 0.6m.
The N upright is an angular block which measures 1.1m by 1.1m and rises to a height of 1.6m; both its E and W faces are heavily cup-marked. The second upright (1.65m SSE of the first) is also a pointed block, measuring 1.1m by 0.9m and 1.5m in height. The recumbent stone (which may never have formed part of the setting) lies a further 0.65m to the SSE and measures 1.3m in length by 0.8m in breadth and 0.6m in thickness.
Excavation (by Dr M E C Stewart) revealed no stone-holes but evidence of previous disturbance.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 18 May 1989.
M E C Stewart 1967.
