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Field Visit
Date 8 September 1942
Event ID 932821
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/932821
‘Blairstane’ is a granite boulder, now prostrate, 6ft long 3 in wide at its broadest and 1 ft 10 inches. One end is flat and the other comes to a rounded point. Though the former end is so flat as to give the impression of having been split off the edges are smooth and rounded. On what is now the upper face has been pecked a figure vaguely like a cross with a total length of 3’ 10 ½ inches and width along the arms of 1 ft 2 inches. This figure is not arranged along the main axis of the stone but is approximately at right angles to the plane of the flat end, and the edge of this end forms the boundary of the broad ‘head’ of the cross. The stem of the cross is not quite straight.
Visited by RCAHMS (VGC), 8 September 1942.
