Archaeology Notes

Event ID 680737

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO05NE 2 0918 5658 to 0917 5675.

(NO 0916 5658) Standing Stones (NR)

(NO 0916 5674) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1900)

Two stones stand on a natural mound. The stone on the N is a rough mass of whinstone 4'2" high with a basal girth of 10'9". Close in front of its E edge is a small, flat, apparently earth-fast block, nearly flush with the ground.

F R Coles 1908

Another stone, 10'4" away, has fallen outwards so that its S edge is now only 2'6" above the ground. It has a basal girth of over 15'. Due N of these two stones is a third, 5'8" high.

Three standing stones, 'A', 'B', and 'C'. 'A', in an open field. According to Mr Murray (J Murray, Balnabroich, Kirkmichael) immediately S of this stone is a large flat slab about 1' below ground level which he has caught several times with his plough but is too heavy to move. Stones 'B' and 'C' stand on top of a narrow glacial ridge, a prominent, though restricted, position which indicates that the stones have never been part of a stone circle or cairn. The "small, flat, apparently earth-fast block" is part of the packing around the base of stone 'B'. Visited by OS (ISS) 1 November 1973