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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 702715
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702715
NS57NE 25 58185 76458
(NS 5818 7646) Auld Wives' Lifts (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
See also NS57NE 21 and NS57SE 26.
The "Auld Wife's Lift" consists of two large boulders, standing close together, with a third lying on top of them. All three are of the local carboniferous sandstone and, although at first sight they might be thought to be a cromlech, their arrangement is unquestionably natural. A shallow incised groove, in the form of a circle 3ft in diameter, has been cut on the upper surface of the uppermost boulder, but it does not appear to have any archaeological significance, and may well have been made by a quarryman engaged on cutting out millstones nearby. (See NS57NE 21).
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1954
These stones are a natural formation.
Visited by OS (WMJ), 26 July 1951
(NS 5818 7646) Auld Wives' Lifts (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1976)
Alcock, who gives a full description of the heads, suggests that they may be of Celtic origin.
L Alcock 1977
