Middleton
Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Stone Row (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Middleton
Classification Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Stone Row (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) 'Law Stone Of Mugdock'
Canmore ID 44415
Site Number NS57NE 18
NGR NS 5621 7659
NGR Description Centred NS 5621 7659
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44415
- Council Stirling
- Parish Strathblane (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS57NE 18 c. 561 766
Standing Stones and Cists, Middleton (Sites). On the side of the road about a quarter of a mile SSE of Middleton farmhouse there was formerly a row of standing stones, alined NW, and SE., the largest of which, at the NW. end of the row, was a huge block of freestone locally known as the "Law Stone of Mugdock". The stones were broken up and carried away for building purposes, and it is reported that when the field in which they had stood was levelled, a number of "stone coffins" were discovered close by. No trace of the stones, or of the cists, can now be seen.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 24 November 1956
The site of these stones was not located during field investigation, and local inquiry proved negative.
Visited by OS (R D) 16 August 1966.
Field Visit (24 November 1956)
NS57NE (unnoted) c. 561 766
On the side of the road about a quarter of a mile SSE. of Middleton farmhouse there was formerly a row of standing stones, alined NW, and SE., the largest of which, at the NW. end of the row, was a huge block of freestone locally known as the "Law Stone of Mugdock" (1). The stones were broken up and carried away for building purposes, and it is reported that when the field in which they had stood was levelled, a number of "stone coffins" were discovered close by (2). No trace of the stones, or of the cists, can now be seen.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 24 November 1956
(1) Smith 1896, 256
(2) Ibid, footnote
Note (1979)
Middleton NS c. 561 766 NS57NE 18
An alignment of standing stones once ran southeastward from a stone called the 'Law Stone of Mugdock', which stood beside the road 'a few hundred yards to the S of Middleton farm-house'; all the stones were removed in the 19th century.
RCAHMS 1979
(Smith 1886, 256; RCAHMS 1963, p. 68, no. 63)
