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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 668411
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/668411
NJ61SE 2 6793 1426
(Area centred: NJ 678 142). A standing stone, said to be the remains of a stone circle, stands in a small plantation west of Tombeg farmhouse. It is 4 1/2 feet high, 2 1/2 feet broad and up to 18 inches thick. A smaller stone lies flat on the ground 24 feet to the south but it is doubtful if it formed part of the circle. A tradition suggests that stones from this farm were used to build Monymusk church.
J Ritchie 1917.
At NJ 6793 1426, a standing stone, as described. No trace of a stone circle in an overgrown area of surface quarrying.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 5 February 1968.
This granite standing stone is situated in thin woodland about 80m WSW of the farmhouse at Tombeg farmsteading (NJ61SE 40.00). It measures 0.85m in breadth by 0.45m in thickness at ground-level and rises to a pointed top at a height of 1.3m. A jumper-hole has been drilled into the N face of the stone about 0.2m above ground-level.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 23 October 1996.
Scheduled as 'Tombeg, standing stone 90m W of...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 13 March 2008.
