Taxing Stone, Little Laight Hill
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Taxing Stone, Little Laight Hill
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 60864
Site Number NX07SE 1
NGR NX 0623 7096
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60864
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Inch
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX07SE 1 0623 7096
(NX 0623 7096) Taxing Stone (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1978)
A standing stone in the line of a dyke. It measures 6' in height above the ground, 2'4" in greatest breadth and 1'10" at base, 1'6" in thickness and faces east and west. It is said to bear the name of 'Laicht Alpin' and to commemorate the burial of Alpin, sometime king of the Scots of Dalriada, assassinated in Glenapp in AD 741.
H Maxwell 1887; RCAHMS 1912.
As described by RCAHMS. The stone is known locally as the 'Taxing Stone', but no information was found regarding its association with Alpin.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 February 1968.
This stone, which stands in a drystone dyke immediately E of the old gun battery (NX07SE 54) on Little Laight Hill, measures a maximum of 0.7m by 0.5m at the base and 1.7m in height. Graffiti carved on the E face of the stone include the date 1720.
RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 19 March 1986.
Taxing Stone [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.
