Middleton Farm
Long Cist(S) (Early Medieval)
Site Name Middleton Farm
Classification Long Cist(S) (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mugdock
Canmore ID 44416
Site Number NS57NE 19
NGR NS 5622 7659
NGR Description Centred on NS 5622 7659
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44416
- Council Stirling
- Parish Strathblane (Stirling)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS57NE 19 c. 5604 7688
A number of stone coffins was found by the late James Shearer when levelling the field in which stood the Law Stone and the row of stones (NS57NE 18).
(The Law Stone is recorded as being on the road a few hundred yards south of Middleton Farm (Middleton Farm at NS 5604 7688).
J G Smith 1886.
No information as to siting was obtained during field investigation and perambulation.
Visited by OS (W M J), 24 July 1951.
On the side of the road about a quarter of a mile SSE of Middleton farmhouse there was formerly a row of standing stones (NS57NE 18), alined NW, and SE. 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
Note (1979)
Middleton NS c. 561 766 NS57NE 19
Several cists were discovered close to the standing stones NS57NE 18 when this field was levelled in the 19th century.
RCAHMS 1979
(Smith 1886, 256 note; RCAHMS 1963, p. 68, no. 63)
