Fingask Castle

This standing stone at NO 2293 2716 is 1.7m high and 3.3m in girth at the base tapering but slightly towards the top, being roughly cylindrical in shape. It is not noted in the OS Name Book.

Visited by OS (RDL) 16 October 1963.

This standing stone is situated about 320m SSE of Fingask Castle (NO22NW 7.00) and close to the SW corner of a walled garden (NO22NW 7.08). It measures 1.2m from NE to SW by 0.8m and 1.5m in height.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 13 June 1989.

NO 2294 2718 (centred on) An evaluation and watching brief were undertaken, 15 February – 3 November 2016, prior to and during construction of accommodation, soakaway, parking and a roadway on a 964m2 area outside the S and W sides of the walled garden at Fingask Castle. The accommodation area revealed stone-lined field drains and a naturally shattered small boulder. In the soakaway trench, which was excavated to a depth of 1.2m, a large boulder was found buried in the subsoil. This boulder was considered to be an in situ natural erratic and very unlikely to be associated with the standing stone. In the area of the car park a linear feature was considered to be associated with shrubs or hedges that formerly surrounded the walled garden. Also in the car park area was a possible posthole, but upon examination this turned out to be a stonehole. Dumps of mortar and gravel in the car park area were thought to be from fairly recent renovation work.

Archive: NRHE (intended)

Funder: Private individual

Ray Cachart – Alder Archaeology Ltd

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 7 September 2017.