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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 678138
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/678138
NN74SW 5 7186 4474.
A boulder known locally as Clach-na-Cruich, or the Stone of the Measles, is in the middle of a field immediately below Borland farmhouse. It has seven faint cup marks on its upper surface. Rainwater contained in a cavity was supposed to be a cure for measles.
H Macmillan 1884
NN 7186 4474. 'Clach-na-Cruich' or 'Stone of the Measles' (both names verified) is an earthfast boulder in an arable field and measures approximately 1.5m long, 0.8m wide, and 1.0m high. Its upper surface bears at least four shallow cup marks from 3cms to 6cms in diameter and 1cm to 2cms deep. Some of the marks illustrated by Macmillan are clearly due to weathering.
The tradition concerning the stone survives locally.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JB) 24 September 1975 and (JRL) 5 December 1978
