<< Text Pages >> Samson's Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Samson's StoneCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.777 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Crieff Nearest Village: Strowan
Map Ref: NN82512202 Landranger Map Number: 52
Latitude: 56.375830N Longitude: 3.904002W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Large rounded boulder on hillside below Creag na Gaoith.
This legendary rock is recorded as Canmore site no. 96866, which records an entry from 1940, saying: "seen from Comrie road on N. Looks merely a huge erratic block on grass field. Probably not megalithic."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this stone - see their entry for Samson’s Stone, Crieff, Perthshire, which gives directions for finding this stone, together with an image of the 1866 OS map showing the location of the stone, and a brief archaeology & history. TNA adds: "Mistakenly cited by some as a standing stone, the large boulder which rests here on the hillside just below the woodland is a glacial erratic. Highlighted on the 1866 OS-map of the region, I hoped that we might find some rock art on the stone, but cup-and-rings there were none. However, there is a curious ‘footprint’ on top of it, similar to the ones found at Dunnad, at Murlaganmore and other places (see Bord 2004); but I can find no previous reference to this carved footprint."
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