Twenty Schilling Wood

Also known as:
Comrie, Twenty Shilling Wood, Wester Tullybannocher and Wester Tullybanocher
Nearest town:
Crieff (11km E)
OS reference:
NN754225
OS sheets:
51, 52
Latitude:
56° 22' 42.14 N
Longitude:
4° 1' 4.58 W
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Image of Twenty Schilling Wood (Stone Circle) by thesweetcheat

The view of the stones from the road, where the obliging bus driver dropped us off and picked us back up again on his return.

Image credit: A. Brookes (6.10.2016)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Oct 23, 2016

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Twenty Schilling Wood

postman
postman Jul 24, 2013

Twenty Schilling wood stone circle, Is there supposed to be a C in Shilling ? the map doesn’t seem to think so.
Very easy to find, and plenty of room to park in the lanes entry from the A 85.
This would have been a big four poster, the two that remain are large enough, the third stone fell around 1894, but they are far enough apart for one to recognise that this would have been much bigger than, say, Dalginross two miles east.
Blue skies, warm sunshine, good stones in an easy to get to pretty place, whats not to like ?

Twenty Schilling Wood

BigSweetie
BigSweetie Dec 28, 2003

This was definitely a circle rather than a pair. Four stones were originally marked on the old OS map, and when Fred Coles visited in 1911, he was told that up until around 17 years previously, three stones had still been standing. The third then fell, and the farmer dragged it away.

The site now consists of the two remaining stones standing approximately 6m apart on the circumference of a circle that appears to have been cleared – the surrounding land is rough and overgrown with long yellow grass, while within this circle is smooth ground, with short green grass.

Twenty Schilling Wood

nickbrand
nickbrand Mar 13, 2003

No sign of any other stones which may have formed a circle, I think this is just a pair myself. The western stone has four distinct cup-marks on it which show up quite well in one of the photographs.

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hamish
hamish Nov 12, 2002

It is easy to miss this one, I stopped in a gateway to check the map-looked around and there it was in the self same field. It has that evocative feel about it, like the Fortingal stones.

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winterjc Dec 8, 2001

We visited this site 2 years ago. It occurred to me that this may have been a very important place, given it’s situation in the Earn Valley.
Dundurn, just up the valley, was an important place 2000 years ago, certainly, and probably was for a long time before. This place was apparently at the border of the pictish and celtic kingdoms and has no doubt marked a boundary between the rugged highland westlands, and the fertile farmlands on the east since the neolithic.
This site is marked on the map as a former circle and now just the 2 stones remain.

Miscellaneous

Twenty Schilling Wood
Stone Circle
BigSweetie
BigSweetie Dec 28, 2003

Directions – head west from Perth on the A85, right through Crieff and Comrie. Approximately a mile outside Comrie, you will see a sign for Twenty Shilling Wood caravan park to your right. Carry on round the next corner, and you will see a double-gate into a field on your right, with the stones visible in the field. There’s space to park by the gates.

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