Craigiedun


Site type: stone circle

Parish: Moulin

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NN 9288 5962

Lat / long: 56.71589081, -3.751624941

Alternative names: The Druid Stones

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

Two seperate authors writing in the 1920s in books about Pitlochry mention stones from a destroyed stone circle lying at the end of the golf course. The land is marked on the Explorer map as marshy, so perhaps predictably CANMORE found "no trace of these stones" as they are some distance from the car park, and it's just possible you might get your feet wet looking for them!

However, the stones are here, some of them turfed over, but here nonetheless, just next to hole six which is called "Druid Stones" . A bit of poking around and scraping away of long grass and mud revealed 4 large stones. I didn't find the ten foot long stone described in 1925, as a party of golfers were getting more and more suspicious. But there were several long bumps in the ground which could do with a better look.

References (books)

  • Pitlochry Past and Present
  • John Dixon
  • Pitlochry, 1925

  • Pitlochry district: its topography, archaeology and history
  • Hugh Mitchell
  • Pitlochry, 1923

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    created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, last updated Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 10:44 pm