Field Visit
Date 4 April 1989
Event ID 921369
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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This granite slab, which measures 1.98m in length and 1.75m in girth at the present ground level, is set upright in a modern socket-stone on the summit of the cairn NO23NE 3.01. Aligned ENE-WSW, the stone has incised on it an animal, possibly a wolf, at the top, a double-disc and Z-rod at the centre, and part of what may have been a pecked double circle at the bottom. When Chalmers recorded it in 1848, the lower portion remained upright, while the top part lay on the ground nearby; the prominent crack at the base of the stone can be identified on Chalmers' drawing. Stuart (1856) records the circumstances of the re-erection of the stone; it was inserted in a base and secured by iron clamps. It is likely that at this tme the ground was mounded up around the stone to provide further support.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 4 April 1989.
P Chalmers 1848; J Stuart 1856; R Jones 1980; A Jackson 1984.
