Folklore

Seward’s Stone, Belmont
Standing Stone / Menhir

In a field on the other side of the house is another monument to a hero of that day, to the memory of the brave young Seward, who fell, slain on the spot by Macbeth. A stupendous stone marks the place; twelve feet high above ground, and eighteen feet and a half in girth in the thickest place. The quantity below the surface of the earth only two feet eight inches; the weight, on accurate computation, amounts to twenty tons; yet I have been assured that no stone of this species is to be found within twenty miles.

From ‘A Tour In Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772’ by Thomas Pennant (1776).