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Balgair Muir
Boundary Marker (Period Unknown)(Possible), Standing Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Balgair Muir
Classification Boundary Marker (Period Unknown)(Possible), Standing Stone (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 45395
Site Number NS69SW 12
NGR NS 60773 90381
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45395
- Council Stirling
- Parish Balfron
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS69SW 12 6077 9038.
NS 6071 9038. This wedge-shaped, unsculptured standing stone measures 1.0m x 0.7m x 1.0m high. It is situated on the slope of a hill some distance below its crest and stands on an area of the moor which has at some time been cultivated.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JLD) 3 April 1957 and (SFS) 10 November 1975
Field Visit (2 October 1952)
NS69SW unnoted 607 904.
A standing stone is situated on Balgair Muir, about 180 yds NW of a gate which opens off the Fintry-Kippen road 340 yds N of its crossing of the Lernock Burn. It is triangular in profile and wedge-shaped in section, measuring 3'3" both in height and breadth along its base, by 1'7" in greatest thickness. It may well have been a boundary stone as it is near the corner of some ground which is enclosed by a turf dyke and has been cultivated.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 2 October 1952
Field Visit (September 1978)
Balgair Muir NS 607 903 NS69SW 12
This triangular-shaped stone, which stands about 1 m high, is probably a boundary-marker.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(RCAHMS 1963, p. 68, no. 59)
