Caiy Stane

The Caiy Stane is a massive red sandstone slab, measuring some 2.75m in height by 1.55m across it’s middle, with a thickness of up to 0.48m.

On the rear (east) side of the stone are a line of 6 cup marks carved near to the base – unfortunately disfigured by graffiti.

It stands in a walled niche at the side of a residential street named Caiystane View – one of 9 streets in the vicinity named Caiystane – but it would once have stood on an open hillside as part of a wider complex.

Around 230 metres to the east of the Caiy Stane were a pair of large cairns known as the Cat Stanes.

A second standing stone known as the Camus Stone (now gone) stood a further 250 metres east of the Cat Stanes, and in the surrounding area hundreds of skeletons were found during road-building in the early 19th century.