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Field Visit
Date July 1965
Event ID 929136
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/929136
'Lang Steen' (its local name) is a natural rectangular monolith, 8 1/2ft high by 2 1/2ft by 1 1/2ft. On the NE face, about 2 1/2 ft from the top is a Pictish double-disc symbol with cross-bar measuring about 5 1/2 inches across. Below it are traces of another symbol involving circles. The SE angle bears a complete and well preserved Ogham inscription, reading 'VUO NO N (I) TEDOV'. 4ft 4ins long which when visited by Crawford for the OS in October 1939, had been recently cleaned. The stone is alleged to have been part of a stone circle but no sign of one could be seen in 1865. Diack 1925; Allen and Anderson 1903, iii, 203-4; Name Book, Kincardineshire, No. 10, p.93. The symbols are considerably weathered and are now almost obscured. No trace of a stone circle could be found.
Resurvey at 1/2500.
Visited by OS July 1965.
