Craighall
Four Poster Stone Circle (Bronze Age)
Site Name Craighall
Classification Four Poster Stone Circle (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Courthill; Glenballoch
Canmore ID 28708
Site Number NO14NE 12
NGR NO 1842 4807
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28708
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Rattray
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO14NE 12 1843 4807.
(NO 1843 4807) Standing Stones (NR)
OS 6" map, Perthshire (1959)
A circle of four stones on top of a grassy knoll, close to Craighall Mill dam.
J R Allen 1881; F R Coles 1909
'Four-poster' datable to c.1800 B C.
H A W Burl 1971
A four-poster, generally as planned by Allen. The smallest stone is in the N, but the other three are roughly the same size. The southerly stone is now broken in half, and is obviously not in situ, and there is some doubt whether the other three are in their original positions. The stones, all rough boulders, occur on the edge of a slight mound (c. 9.0m in diameter and 0.2m high) which may be original but could be due to the effects of ploughing and erosion by animals.
Visited by OS (IMT) 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This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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 (October 1986)
Situated on the edge of a terrace immediately E of the public road and about 100m NE of the former saw mill at Craighall, there are the remains of a four-poster stone circle. All four stones have fallen and the southernmost stone has broken into two pieces. Quantities of field-gathered stones have been piled in and around the circle.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) October 1986.
RCAHMS 1990.
