Archaeology Notes
Event ID 682304
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/682304
NO11SW 2 14646 13429.
(NO 1464 1342) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
About 2 chains NE of Clochridgestone is a standing stone, a small whinstone boulder, slightly hollowed at the top.
Name Book 1860.
The stone shown on the OS 25" map is a recumbent slab 1.4m x 0.9m x 0.5m with a well-cut rectangular slot, 0.8m x 0.1m x 0.1m, in its upper face. The stone does not appear to be of very great antiquity.
Visited by OS (J T T) 3 August 1965.
A large boulder, bearing a rectangular slot in the centre of its upper surface, is situated on the summit of a low knoll in waste ground about 40m NNE of the former farmhouse at Clochridgestone. The boulder measures 1.4m from N to S by a maximum of 0.92m transversely at the wider N end and up to 0.55m in thickness. The slot measures 780mm in length from N to S by 100mm in width and up to 120mm in depth; the corners of the slot are rounded, but this may be due to erosion, which has also consumed much of the lip of the slot around its S end. The initials D.F. have been carved into the upper surface of the boulder immediately E of the N end of the slot.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, JB) 23 January 2007.