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Knowhead

Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Knowhead

Classification Standing Stone(S) (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Knowehead

Canmore ID 31013

Site Number NO25NE 5

NGR NO 29833 58236

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Lintrathen
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO25NE 5 2984 5823.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS 22 November 1967.

Activities

Field Visit (9 August 1942)

This site was recorded as part of the RCAHMS Emergency Survey, undertaken by Angus Graham and Vere Gordon Childe during World War 2. The project archive has been catalogued during 2013-2014 and the material, which includes notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, plans and photographs, is now available online.

Information from RCAHMS (GF Geddes) 2 December 2014.

Note (1983)

Knowehead NO 298 582 NO25NE 5

These two standing stones, one now recumbent, are situated at the E end of a low natural mound on the S-facing slope 260m S of Knowehead steading. The upright stone is 2.2m high, and the other is 2m long.

RCAHMS 1983.

(Name Book, Forfar, No. 62, p. 71).

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