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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Blue Stane (St Andrews) Alternative Name: Blue Stone (St Andrews)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.391 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Fife Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: St Andrews
Map Ref: NO5055216707
Latitude: 56.340126N Longitude: 2.801466W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Standing Stone (Menhir) in Fife
This standing stone is featured on The Northern Antiquarian (TNA); see their page for Blue Stane, St. Andrews, Fife. This entry includes directions on how to find the stone, together with a brief archaeology and history of the site and the folklore.
There are a number of entries on Canmore around this grid reference, but these relate to the nearby hotel, re-used foundation stones, pottery fragments, etc, but there is no mention of this stone.
TNA includes a photograph of this stone from several different angles, along with the blue plaque alongside which tells us "the Blue Stane is a relic of Pre-Christian Pictish St. Andrews when it had some now forgotten ritual significance. It is reputed to be have been the coronation stone of Kenneth MacAlpine, who united the Kingdom of Scots and the Picts in 843 AD."
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