Archaeology Notes

Event ID 707962

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS97NW 5 9187 7709.

(NS 9187 7709) Wallace's Stone (NAT)

OS 6" map (1969)

According to Nimmo's editor (W Nimmo 1817) the original "Wallace's Stone" was a slab 3' high, 18" wide and 3" thick, but the monument that now occupies the site is an ornamental stone pillar, erected in 1810 in honour of Sir William Wallace, and is of no archaeological interest.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1952

RCAHMS confirmed. There is no trace of the original stone.

Visited by OS (JP) 10 January 1974