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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 730005
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/730005
NX98SE 6 9786 8400.
There is a standing stone, 3 ft 6 ins high by 2 ft 10 ins broad by 1 ft 6 ins thick, in a meadow some 300 yards to the east of Castlehill.
'The fact that the small circualr plantation immediately adjacent goes by the name of "Peerie's Kist" is not without significance'. The stone is typical of those from stone circles.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913.
NX 9786 8400. A plain block of sandstone 1.2m high by 0.8m x 0.4m. In the centre of its E face is a small drill-hole and in the bottom N corner of the E face is a small round hollow c. 0.05m in diameter, possibly a cup-mark.
The name "Perie's Chest ('Peerie's Kist' RCAHMS) does not apply to the circular plantation but an irregular plantation some 120.0m to the west of the circular plantation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
This stone has been removed from the ground and relocated to the edge of the adjacent plantation.
Information from Dumfries and Galloway Council, SMR, (JB), 3 March 1990
