Longcastle
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Longcastle
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 62686
Site Number NX34NE 2
NGR NX 3824 4810
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkinner
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NX34NE 2 3824 4810.
(NX 3824 4810) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
This standing stone is 4' 10" high by 2'4" broad, facing SE 36' E of it, and crossed by the wall at the roadside is a granite boulder 3'6" high by 3'2" broad, facing WSW-ENE, while there are several other large boulders built into the wall nearby. These various stones suggest that there may have been a stone circle here.
RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911
Symson mentions "a monument at Cairnfield, almost like Galdus' tomb, but it consists of not so good stones nor yet placed in so good order". (Galdus' tomb was the name he gave to the three large standing stones in the centre of the Standing Stones of Torhouskie - NX35NE 14; also see NX34NE 3). This could be an earlier reference to the feature described by RCAHMS.
W Macfarlane 1907
The standing stone is as described. The boulder in the wall appears to be in situ but there is not sufficient evidence to suggest a stone circle.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 31 January 1973
