Field Visit
Date 21 April 1954
Event ID 1109079
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1109079
NS 68 SE (unnoted) 657 839
These two stones stand on a slight eminence in open moorland, half a mile ENE. of Waterhead farmhouse and at an elevation of 850 ft. O.D. Described by Nimmo's editor as ‘a Druidical remain’ (1), they have also been known as the Machar Stones (2). The more northerly stone, a four-sided pillar of irregular section, has fallen almost prostrate and its whole length, 7 ft. 6 in., is revealed. At the centre it measures 3 ft. in width by 2 ft. 6 in. in breadth. The other stone stands 4 ft. 6 in. further S. It is a slab shaped as shown in Pl. 3D (ST 858), standing to a height of 5 ft. and measuring about 2 ft. in thickness. Its width is 2 ft. 8 in.at ground level, 3 ft. 8 in. at a point 2 ft. above this, and 2 ft. at the top.
The excavations in the vicinity that revealed the cists (NS68SE 3) may be responsible for the overthrow of the more northerly stone, and may also account for the presence in the immediate area of numerous small loose stones.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 21 April 1954
(1) History (1817 ed.), 633
(2) TSNHAS, xv (1892-3), 132 and pl. xxiii.
