Craighall


Site type: stone circle

Parish: Rattray

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NO 1842 4807

Lat / long: 56.61687172, -3.329799442

Alternative names: Courthill; Glenballoch

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

This is a very disrupted site, obviously affected by its proximity to the field. Nonetheless it is still an interesting site, with four large stones lying on a mound 9.0m in diameter by 0.2m high. The stones, all rough boulders, are unlikely ever to have stood erect. The one at the N corner is the smallest, with the other three being of similar size, although the one at the S corner has split in two. Field clearance has been added to the circle.

References (books)

  • The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
  • Aubrey Burl
  • London and New Haven, 2000

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

  • Megalithic Sites in Britain
  • Alexander Thom
  • Oxford, 1967

  • 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 10:41 pm