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Desk Based Assessment
Event ID 660421
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660421
NH54SE 9 5518 4357 Removed from NH c. 509 451
For original location (NH54NW 155 c. 509 451), see NH54NW 155.
In the rockery at Moniack Castle is a stone, about 4 1/2 ft. in height, bearing the outlined figure of a man with a stick or other instrument in his hand, and fourteen cup-marks, one of which has been mistaken for the eye of the figure. The stone stands at the end of the rockery farthest from the entrance gate. 'This stone was brought from a spot where it stood for a time, close to the old parish school of Kilmorack, near Kilmorack Free Church. It was however, removed to this place between fifty and sixty years ago, from a spot 100 yard further west, when the ground was them reclaimed. There is nothing known of the stone, traditional or otherwise, beyond this.
(These sitings place the original location in the vicinity of Balblair. (NH 50 45))
Information from OS.
W Jolly 1882.
