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Database Update
Date 18 September 2010
Event ID 629114
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/629114
This stone stands on the crest of a hill, but is set towards the back of a large, slightly hollowed, oval enclosure (centred NF 91223 80683), traditionally thought to define the perimeter of a burial ground (see NF98SW 8). If this tradition is correct, the footings of a small rectangular building extending due W from the base of the stone are possibly those of a chapel associated with the burial ground. The stone itself measures 1.05m in breadth by a maximum of 0.25m in thickness and rises 2.6m to a point formed where the sloping top meets the straight SE side in an acute angle. The date of the stone is uncertain, apparently standing in the interior of a burial ground which has been dug into the slope and mainly lies beneath the surrounding ground level. In this respect it resembles a grassed over quarry and as such raises the possibility that the bank of the enclosure and the standing stone are elements of an earlier structure, possibly even a large heavily robbed hilltop burial cairn.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 18 September 2010
