Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678540

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN85SE 8 8802 5062

(NN 8802 5062) A stone bearing 6 small cups lies flat by the roadside between two large blocks of stone, one on either side of the road. It is approximately 6'6" x 2'7", not rising more than 3" above ground and, according to Dixon, bears 8 or 9 cups.

F R Coles 1908; J H Dixon 1922; M E C Stewart 1967.

A pair of standing stones, each facing SSE-NNW and formerly 8.0m apart. The easterly stone (2.2m x 1.1m x 0.4m) has recently been displaced and lies 2.5m E of its original position. The W stone, still in situ, measures 1.1m x 1.0m x 0.4m. The cup marked stone lies between them and is as illustrated by Dixon.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (SFS), 12 February 1975.

Scheduled as Lundin Farm, standing stones... two standing stones of prehistoric date, one now prostrate.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 November 2003.