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<< Our Photo Pages >> The Dagon Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in East Ayrshire

Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 16 March 2018  Page Views: 2382

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: The Dagon Stone
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.803 km away from the location you searched for.

County: East Ayrshire Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Kilmarnock  Nearest Village: Darvel
Map Ref: NS56333746
Latitude: 55.609468N  Longitude: 4.282359W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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The Dagon Stone
The Dagon Stone submitted by markj99 : The Dagon Stone looking towards West High Street, Darvel. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Standing Stone in East Ayrshire

The Dagon Stone, Hastings Square, Darvel
Possible standing stone which has been moved and re-erected on more than one occasion. The round boulder on top was added by a local blacksmith in the 19th century.
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The Dagon Stone
The Dagon Stone submitted by Antonine : I lived on the outskirts of this village from the age of 12 until the age of 20 (1989). This photo is from 2019 (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Dagon Stone
The Dagon Stone submitted by Creative Commons : The Dagon Stone, Hastings Square, Darvel f Possible standing stone which has been moved and re-erected on more than one occasion. The round boulder on top was added by a local blacksmith in the 19th century. Copyright Leslie Barrie and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence Site in East Ayrshire Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NS5637 : The Dagon Stone, Hastings Square, Darvel by Leslie Barrie
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NS5637 : War Memorial, Hastings Square Darvel by Billy McCrorie
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NS5637 : The Dagon Stone - Hastings Square, Darvel by Raibeart MacAoidh
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NS5637 : Darvel War Memorial by Leslie Barrie
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The Dagon Stone on the Urban Prehistorian by Andy B on Friday, 16 March 2018
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Dagon Day. The recent launch [2013] of the issue 3 of the Love Archaeology magazine prompted me to take a fieldtrip to Darvel in East Ayrshire. The magazine contains an article on HP Lovecraft and archaeology, and this made me think of one of the strangest urban megaliths in Scotland, the Dagon Stone. My main motivations were to explore the complicated modern biography of this standing stone, as well as think about its strange name, and so I developed a simple field project. In one morning, I would visit Darvel and the various sites associated with this much travelled megalith, then read HP Lovecraft’s short story called Dagon, and finish the project off with a viewing of the film version of Dagon. For me, this was an exciting programme – of all of the urban megaliths I have encountered, this one seems to have suffered the most indignities: constantly moved, appendage added, drawn on with chalk, and allocated a silly name. This is urban prehistory worth exploring.

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https://theurbanprehistorian.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/dagon-day/
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