Dane's Stone


Site type: standing stone

Parish: Moulin

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NN 9425 5942

Lat / long: 56.714414, -3.72867871

Alternative names: Pitfourie

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

This large stone stands just to the north-west of the village of Moulin, in the field where the Moulin Market used to be held in days gone by. The stone stands some 2.1m tall by 1.3m wide at it's widest point. The stone is 0.6m thick at the top, increasing to 0.9m thick at the base.

Coles reported in 1908 that several more stones were said to have stood in the field, all smaller than the existing stone, but were now half buried. However no trace of these other stones has been found.

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 11:10 pm