Archaeology Notes

Event ID 700400

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS35NE 13 3827 5542.

(NS 3827 5542) Rocking Stone (NR)

OS 6" map (1911)

This rocking stone is a large erractic boulder of basaltic greenstone lying on porphyrite. Its parent bed is at barcraigs about a mile away. The boulder is 4ft 4ins high and has a circumference of about 19ft 7ins. R Love 1876

The 'Rocking Stone' is an irregularly - shaped boulder, 5.8m in circumference and 1.2m high. It is a natural feature.

Visited by OS (DS) 28 August 1956