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I was just thinking about adding more to the pages about stuff local to me cos I'm off ill a few weeks, not visiting anywhere. The grid references would certainly help on some sites where they call a stone by a similar name and as location just give "Edinburgh".

The internet is an evil thing though... typed in the term on the stone pages and then wandered from one page to another for hours withour realising till my backside went numb at the same time my feet got pins and needles.

Hiya Branwen,
The Witches Stone at Spott was added by me a while back;
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/6453/witches_stone.html

Great place to visit.
Re the Slidey Stone at Arthurs Seat- do you know here this was exactly?? I grew up in Abbeyhill just next to Holyrood park and spent many a happy day playing up there. When I saw Slidey Stone at Arthurs Seat, I thought it might be the outcrop of rocks at Hunters Bog- we indeed used these as slides for many years!The RCAHMS have a small publication/booklet on Arthurs Seat, but there was no mention of the Slidey Stone....

Cheers,
Martin

Branwen wrote:
I was just thinking about adding more to the pages about stuff local to me cos I'm off ill a few weeks, not visiting anywhere. The grid references would certainly help on some sites where they call a stone by a similar name and as location just give "Edinburgh".

The internet is an evil thing though... typed in the term on the stone pages and then wandered from one page to another for hours withour realising till my backside went numb at the same time my feet got pins and needles.

Martin has done Spott .The one in Forres is in Victoria rd at hte eastern end of the town just off the main Inverness road .The Dunfermline one is in a field to the north of the road from Dunfermline to Cairneyhill .St Martins is about a mile from the village and is in the middle of field to the north of th track at about NO 316 159 . Monzie is in the grounds of Monzie castle near Crieff and has a fine kerb cairn with rock art not far from the stone which is dead obvious .