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The Grey Wether, Meikledale
Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name The Grey Wether, Meikledale
Classification Standing Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 67790
Site Number NY39SE 19
NGR NY 3761 9273
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67790
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Ewes
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY39SE 19 3761 9273.
(NY 3761 9273) Grey Wether (NAT)
OS 6" map (1957)
The 'Grey Wether', a standing stone, is a large whinstone slab, 4ft 8ins high, 3ft 5ins broad and 1 ft thick, facing WSW-ESE.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912
'Grey Wether', name verified. This weathered slab now lies in a level, arable field. Mr Steatham of Meikledale states that the stone was standing until shortly before the last war, when it was blasted out and part of it dumped in the nearby Meikledale Burn. However, its present dimensions of 1.6m by 1.0m by 0.3m are similar to the 1920 RCAHMS description.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JRL) 24 September 1979.
This fallen standing stone (1m by 0.3m and 1.6m in length) lies in a field 250m SSW of Meikledale farmhouse (NY39SE 70).
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980.
