Category Archives: Standing Stones

Simply what the term suggests: upright singular or multiple sets of stones plonked there thousands of years back (traditionally betwixt neolithic to Iron Age) for various uses. Some relate to burial; others to land-markers (tribal boundaries, etc); some may be alignment-markers (solar and lunar); othes simple meeting spots (moots). They are closely related to stone circles, tombs, and many of them are outliers to such sites.

Carie, Kenmore, Perthshire

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NN 64772 38018 Also Known as: Canmore ID 289028 Getting Here Along the A827 Loch Tay road between Morenish and Lawers, keep your eyes peeled for the Carie farmhouse on the mountain-side (Tombreck is … Continue reading

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Wizard’s Stone, Dollar, Clackmannanshire

Legendary Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NS 9657 9902 Getting Here From Dollar town centre, take the road up to the gorgeous Castle Campbell, but instead of turning up towards the castle, keep on the road, uphill, for another quarter-mile.  … Continue reading

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Robin Hood’s Stone, Allerton, Liverpool, Lancashire

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference – SJ 3997 8638 Archaeology & History Similar in size and appearance to one of the cup-marked Tuilyies standing stones in Fife, Scotland, it was our old ley-hunter, Alfred Watkins, who described this stone in … Continue reading

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Tuilyies, Torryburn, Fife

Standing Stones:  OS Grid Reference – NT 0291 8660 Also Known as: Canmore ID 49451 The Tuilyies Getting Here Go west out of Dunfermline on the A994 till you hit the Torryburn roundabout, taking the A985 Kincardine road. Barely a … Continue reading

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Tir Artair, Killin, Perthshire

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NN 58870 34720 Also Known as: Canmore ID 24205 Getting Here This lovely standing stone can be a pain-in-the arse to get to!  Unless you wanna clamber over the excess of increasingly stupid deer … Continue reading

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Clach na h’ Iobairte, Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference - NN 61702 58975 Also Known as: Canmore ID 24576 Chieftain’s Grave Clach na h-Iobairte Clach na h-Jobairte Craiganour Stone Craig-na-Odhar Stone of Sacrifice Stone of the Offering Getting Here From the gorgeous village of Kinloch … Continue reading

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Standing Stone, Linlithgow, West Lothian

Standing Stone (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – unknown Archaeology & History Not included in the Canmore listings, nor that of the Scottish Royal Commission (1929), this lost standing stone once stood somewhere in Linlithgow town itself.  It was referred to … Continue reading

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Hammond Close Stone, Threshfield, North Yorkshire

Standing Stones:  OS Grid Reference – SD 95161 65209 Getting Here From Threshfield, go up Skirethorns Lane for about 1/2 mile, where the lane takes a sharp right. Continue uphill for nearly 2 miles to a metal gate. Go through … Continue reading

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Blue Stane, St. Andrews, Fife

Standing Stone: OS Grid Reference – NO 50545 16708 Also Known as: Blue Stone Getting Here From the bus station in town, walk across the road and to your right, as if you’re heading into the town centre.  Barely 100 … Continue reading

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Fingal’s Stone, Killin, Perthshire

Standing Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NN 5712 3301 Also Known as: Canmore ID 24192 Getting Here Less than 100 yards up the road from the Co-op in Killin, take the footpath on the same side of the road into … Continue reading

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