East Cult


Site type: cairn

Parish: Caputh

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NO 0724 4198

Lat / long: 56.55999916, -3.510066793

Alternative names: Caputh Church

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

A cairn here was mentioned in the Name Book as having been destroyed before its publication in 1865, and the stones used for building material. It may have included standing stones, leading it to be described as the East Cult stone circle. No trace of it is visible today in an improved field.

References (books)

  • New Statistical Account of Scotland
  • various
  • Edinburgh, 1845

  • Old Statistical Account of Scotland
  • various
  • Edinburgh, 1799

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

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

  • The Celtic Placenames of Scotland
  • W.J. Watson
  • Edinburgh and London, 1926

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    created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, last updated Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 at 11:16 pm