Lundin
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Lundin
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Creagan Ban; Lundin Farm
Canmore ID 25726
Site Number NN85SE 8
NGR NN 8802 5062
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25726
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Logierait
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN85SE 8 8802 5062
(NN 8802 5062) A stone bearing 6 small cups lies flat by the roadside between two large blocks of stone, one on either side of the road. It is approximately 6'6" x 2'7", not rising more than 3" above ground and, according to Dixon, bears 8 or 9 cups.
F R Coles 1908; J H Dixon 1922; M E C Stewart 1967.
A pair of standing stones, each facing SSE-NNW and formerly 8.0m apart. The easterly stone (2.2m x 1.1m x 0.4m) has recently been displaced and lies 2.5m E of its original position. The W stone, still in situ, measures 1.1m x 1.0m x 0.4m. The cup marked stone lies between them and is as illustrated by Dixon.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (SFS), 12 February 1975.
Scheduled as Lundin Farm, standing stones... two standing stones of prehistoric date, one now prostrate.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 November 2003.
Publication Account (1987)
Several sites may be seen between the junction with the main road and the interesting setting of standing stones excavated by Dr M E C Stewart. The first is a small standing stone set up in an unusually inconspicuous position (NN 878506) - perhaps it indicates the site of a burial. Nearby there is a pair of standing stones, a class of monument showing a distinct distribution in the valleys of the Tay and the Earn, but with outlying examples such as Orwell (no. 101). The stones, set on an east-west alignment, are not tall, measuring 0.6m in height and 1m by 0.3m at the base, and 1.1m in height and 1.8m by 0.46m at the base respectively.
The visitor should continue along the track and will find the setting of four standing stones to the southeast; this is a 'four-poster' setting of stones on the top of a natural mound. The stones were erected around a deposit of cremated bone, pottery and burnt wood; finally cairn material was heaped over the interior, spilling out beyond the standing stones. The pottery includes sherds of a fine cord-ornamented Beaker and a Collared Cinerary Urn; they may well represent prolonged activity on the site rather than a short period of burial ritual.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Fife and Tayside’, (1987).
Watching Brief (5 June 2018 - 6 June 2018)
A pair of standing stones are located around NN 8802 5062 although one stone has been moved a short distance in recent times. The stones constitute a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SM1565). The existing overhead line runs directly over the east edge of this monument.
Information from Oasis (scotiaar1-321801) 18 July 2018
