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Dunning

Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Dunning

Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Battle Of Duncrub; Leadketty Holdings; Burial Place Of Doncha, Abbot Of Dunkeld

Canmore ID 26715

Site Number NO01SW 9

NGR NO 0185 1469

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Dunning
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO01SW 9 0185 1469

(NO 0185 1469) Standing Stone (NR)

OS 6" map, (1959)

An uninscribed (OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford, 11 August 1936) standing stone seven feet high, the reputed burial place of Doncha, Abbot of Dunkeld, killed in AD. 964 at the Battle of Duncrub (NO01SW 7)

Name Book 1859.

This stone is 1.9m high by 0.8m by 1.0m.

No further information obtained.

Visited by OS (W D H), 5 November 1965.

Scheduled as 'Dunning, standing stone 300m SE of Leadketty Holdings'.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 16 August 2001.

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