paganman wrote:
does anyone have any info on the standing stone in balfron I've seen a picture of it but I can't seem to find it
That's in Stirling isn't it? Is this it? Just off the Fintry-Kippen road......
Balgair Muir
Organisation
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Alternative Name(s)
Canmore ID
45395
Site Type
STANDING STONE
County
STIRLINGSHIRE
Parish
BALFRON
Council
STIRLING
NGR
NS 6077 9038
Latitude, Longitude
56.085877N, 4.239097W
Images
0
Archaeological Notes
NS69SW 12 6077 9038.
NS 607 904. A standing stone is situated on Balgair Muir, about 180 yds NW of a gate which opens off the Fintry-Kippen road 340 yds N of its crossing of the Lernock Burn. It is triangular in profile and wedge-shaped in section, measuring 3'3" both in height and breadth along its base, by 1'7" in greatest thickness. It may well have been a boundary stone as it is near the corner of some ground which is enclosed by a turf dyke and has been cultivated.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1952
NS 6071 9038. This wedge-shaped, unsculptured standing stone measures 1.0m x 0.7m x 1.0m high. It is situated on the slope of a hill some distance below its crest and stands on an area of the moor which has at some time been cultivated.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JLD) 3 April 1957 and (SFS) 10 November 1975
NS 607 903 This triangular-shaped stone, which stands about im high, is probably a boundary-marker.
RCAHMS 1963; RCAHMS 1979; visited September 1978
