Kingscross Point

Nearest town:
Ardrossan (23km NE)
OS reference:
NS044284
OS sheet:
69
Latitude:
55° 30' 35.94 N
Longitude:
5° 5' 52.81 W
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Images

Image of Kingscross Point (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Howburn Digger

The King’s Cross Point Standing Stone surrounded by its cairn back in 1894. Holy Isle in the background. The building is now a Buddhist retreat.

Image credit: Howburn Digger's Vintage Arran Postcard Collection
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Nov 15, 2010
Image of Kingscross Point (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Howburn Digger

The King’s Cross Point monolith poking out of its cairn on the far side of the King’s Cross Fort. Holy Island in the background.

12 October 2010

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Oct 17, 2010
Image of Kingscross Point (Standing Stone / Menhir) by Howburn Digger

The poor old monolith is sheathed in a pointless concrete and rubble cairn with only a couple of feet of its original length being visible. It sits right at King’s Cross Point between Lamlash and Whiting Bay.

Nearly nine year old added for scale.

12 October 2010

Image credit: Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger
Howburn Digger Oct 17, 2010

Articles

Folklore

Kingscross Point
Standing Stone / Menhir
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Aug 19, 2007

John McArthur says in his 1861 ‘Antiquities of Arran’, that

“At Kingscross, on a hillock near the shore, there is a monolith which marks the spot from which King Robert the Bruce embarked for the Carrick coast; and in a neighbouring field, there is an unhewn block of sandstone, believed to be the sole relic of the rude cot in which the king resided, on the eve of his departure from the Island.”

The RCAHMS record won’t commit itself, mostly because the stone has become surrounded by a cairn of stone. The Name Book of 1864 suggests the stone stood alone at 6-7ft high, but now (or at least, in 1977) only 80cm shows out the top of a cairn. “It is possibly a Bronze Age standing stone to which a later tradition is attached, but in its present state this is conjectural.”

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