Lundin

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.

Several sites may be seen between the junction with the main road and the interesting setting of standing stones excavated by Dr M E C Stewart. The first is a small standing stone set up in an unusually inconspicuous position (NN 878506) - perhaps it indicates the site of a burial. Nearby there is a pair of standing stones, a class of monument showing a distinct distribution in the valleys of the Tay and the Earn, but with outlying examples such as Orwell (no. 101). The stones, set on an east-west alignment, are not tall, measuring 0.6m in height and 1m by 0.3m at the base, and 1.1m in height and 1.8m by 0.46m at the base respectively.

The visitor should continue along the track and will find the setting of four standing stones to the southeast; this is a 'four-poster' setting of stones on the top of a natural mound. The stones were erected around a deposit of cremated bone, pottery and burnt wood; finally cairn material was heaped over the interior, spilling out beyond the standing stones. The pottery includes sherds of a fine cord-ornamented Beaker and a Collared Cinerary Urn; they may well represent prolonged activity on the site rather than a short period of burial ritual.

Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Fife and Tayside’, (1987).

Located at NN 8783 5059 is a single standing stone, a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SM1564). It stands some 150m west of the overhead line and 250m west of the cable trench.

Information from Oasis (scotiaar1-321801) 18 July 2018