Archaeology Notes

Event ID 712907

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT26NW 18 2450 6922.

(NT 2444 6944) Buck Stone (NAT)

OS 1:1250 map (1964)

The "Buck Stane", built into a garden wall, is 3'4" in height, 15" across the widest face, and 11" thick, but it has no distinctive features. It is traditionally associated with the Barony of Penicuik and the royal hunts on the Boroughmuir (W Maitland 1753).

RCAHMS 1929, visited 1927

The Buck Stane now stands at NT 2450 6922. According to a plaque, the Buck Stane marked the place where the buckhounds were unleashed when the King of Scotland hunted in the region.

Visited by OS (BS) 4 December 1975