Craighall
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Craighall
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric), Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Glenballoch Stone; Glenballoch Cottage
Canmore ID 28707
Site Number NO14NE 11
NGR NO 1852 4826
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28707
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Rattray
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO14NE 11 1852 4827.
(NO 1852 4837) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)
Known as the Glenballoch Stone, this standing stone is a whinstone block 8'6" high and 20' in circumference at the base. On the SE side are cut 13 cup marks, the highest and lowest marks connected by a vertical groove.
J R Allen 1881
A standing stone as described and illustrated. The name "Glenballoch Stone" is not applied locally.
Visited by OS (AA) 29 November 1973
Field Visit (7 August 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (7 October 1986)
This massive standing stone is situated on the forward slope of a terrace 310m NE of the former saw mill at Craighall. Aligned with its long axis NNE to SSW, it measures 2.6m by 1.7m at the base, rising with sloping sides to a flat top at a height of 2.5m. Close to the base of the E face of the stone, there are nine plain cupmarks measuring up to 80mm by 30mm.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 7 October 1986.
RCAHMS 1990.
