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Wallacestone, Wallace's Stone
Commemorative Monument (19th Century) (1810), Stone (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Site Name Wallacestone, Wallace's Stone
Classification Commemorative Monument (19th Century) (1810), Stone (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Canmore ID 47907
Site Number NS97NW 5
NGR NS 91874 77094
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47907
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Grangemouth
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS97NW 5 9187 7709.
(NS 9187 7709) Wallace's Stone (NAT)
OS 6" map (1969)
According to Nimmo's editor (W Nimmo 1817) the original "Wallace's Stone" was a slab 3' high, 18" wide and 3" thick, but the monument that now occupies the site is an ornamental stone pillar, erected in 1810 in honour of Sir William Wallace, and is of no archaeological interest.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1952
RCAHMS confirmed. There is no trace of the original stone.
Visited by OS (JP) 10 January 1974
Field Visit (9 December 1952)
Standing Stone, 'Wallace's Stone', Wallacestone.
According to Nimmo's editor (1) the original "Wallace's Stone" was a slab 3' high, 18" wide and 3" thick, but the monument that now occupies the site is an ornamental stone pillar, erected in 1810 in honour of Sir William Wallace, and is of no archaeological interest.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 9 December 1952
(1) History (1817 ed.), i, 197
Field Visit (July 1977)
Wallace’s Stone NS 918 770 NS97NW
Present stone is an ornamental pillar erected in 1810.
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1977
(Nimmo 1817, 197-8; RCAHMS 1963, p.67, No. 52)
