Archaeology Notes

Event ID 723079

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT67NE 21 68008 76615

See also NT67NE 29.

(NT 6800 7661) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Standing stone with cup-marks, Easter Broomhouse: Some 200 yds SSW of Easter Broomhouse is a red sandstone monolith 9ft high and 6ft in girth at its base, where it is roughly rectangular in plan, the east and west faces being 22 ins broad. On the west face there are three cup-marks. The deep grooves on the base of the stone were caused by a steam-plough cable.

RCAHMS 1924; J Drummond 1863; J Y Simpson 1867

As described by RCAHMS and illustrated by Drummond and Simpson.

Visited by OS (RD) 22 March 1966.