Moncrieffe House

Nearest town:
Perth (4km NW)
OS reference:
NO136193
OS sheet:
58
Latitude:
56° 21' 29.07 N
Longitude:
3° 23' 54.51 W
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Moncrieffe House

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scotty Feb 27, 2003

A dream home for a megarak. This circle stands on the lawn of Moncrieffe house near Bridge of Earn. It was moved here in the 70s from its original site a few hundred yards away because it was in the path of the M90 motorway. Just to the east is a cup mark boulder moved at the same time as the circle And infront of the house stands the Bore stone of Gask, a damaged cross slab with breathtaking carvings.

Permission must be sought to visit the site as it is in a private garden.

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Moncrieffe House
Stone Circle
fitzcoraldo
fitzcoraldo Dec 29, 2005

Before the circle was moved to make way for the M90 it was excavated. Four phases of activity were recognized.

Phase 1 Was a  class 1 henge monument containing a concentric ring of nine pits and a cremation lay outside the entrance.

Phase 2 A small burial cairn with kerb of of stones surrounded by a ring of standing stones. This monument was almost completely destroyed by later phases.

Phase 3 A ring of eight standing standing stones, graded in height from SW to NE; recumbent stones lay between the three tallest monoliths on the south-west arc. At the centre was a possible ring cairn which was accompanied by cremated burials in pits.

Phase 4 The centre of the monument was used as a metal working workshop for smelting iron and casting bronze.

Information from
The excavation of a henge, stone circles and metal working area at Moncreiffe, Perthshire
Margaret E C Stewart with contributions by Joanna Close-Brooks, H McKerrell,and Lisbeth M Thorns.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquities of Scotland, 115 1985

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