Archaeology Notes
Event ID 688004
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NO35SE 18 3917 5463.
(NO 3918 5463) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Forfarshire and Angus, 2nd ed., (1927)
This standing stone is 9' high and 6'6" across the base. The New Statistical Account (NSA - 1845) notes a fragment 12'9" long lying on the ground, but this had disappeared by 1909. Reid (1909) suggests that the two stones may have formed part of a circle, the recumbent one not having broken off as suggested in the NSA.
NSA 1845; A Reid 1909.
This large, unsculptured standing stone measures 2.7m x 0.5m x 1.8m. It is oriented E-W and is situated on the top of Kirriemuir Hill.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JLD) 5 September 1958.