East Cult


Site type: stone circle

Parish: Caputh

County: Perthshire

Grid reference: NO 072 421

Lat / long: 56.56179552, -3.510138361

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

According to the Old Statistical Account there was a stone circle close to the East Cult standing stones. There is no trace of this now, and it is unsure whether the stone circle described was actually a (now-destroyed) cairn or a separate monument.

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 11:15 pm