Craighall


Site type: standing stone and rock art

Parish: Rattray

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NO 1852 4826

Lat / long: 56.61868561, -3.328233365

Alternative names: Glenballoch; Glenballoch Cottage

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

This massive standing stone, aligned NNE-SSW measures 2.5m in height by 1.7m wide at the base, and is decorated on its east side with numerous cupmarks. According to the RCAHMS in 1986 there were 9 cupmarks, but in 1881 there were apparently 13. Four of the cupmarks are particularly well-defined and may represent the nearby Craighall stone circle.

References (books)

  • The Queen's Scotland - Heartland of Scotland
  • Nigel Tranter
  • London, 1971

  • North-east Perth: An Archaeological Landscape
  • RCAHMS
  • Edinburgh, 1990

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    created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, last updated Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 10:40 pm