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Field Visit
Date 3 August 1927
Event ID 1099385
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1099385
The "Lecker Stane," Mawhill.
This large undressed slab of freestone is laid flat on the top of a low dike adjoining the west side of the public roadway to Mawhill farmhouse and nearly half a mile to the south-west of that steading. It measures 6 feet 4 inches in average length, 4 feet in width from east to west, and has an average thickness of 6 to 7 inches. The stone, which is known as "The Lecker Stane," shows no markings. Locally it is asserted that, during the passage of a funeral to the churchyard, the coffin was rested on this stone and "liquor" was served as refreshment to the mourners. The explanation of the name is obviously a misunderstanding.*
RCAHMS 1933, visited 3 August 1927.
*Certain stones still bear the name of 'Lecker Stone' or 'Lecture Stane', and others are known to have been called so. The name clearly reproduces the 'Lykrstyne' of an early document (Reg. Prior. S. Andrew., p.1), where it is defined as 'a heap of stones' (acervus lapidum) i.e. a burial cairn. The cases cited, however, are single stones.
