<< Our Photo Pages >> Quinloch Muir Stones - Standing Stones in Scotland in Stirling
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Date UncertainSite Name: Quinloch Muir StonesCountry: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Glasgow Nearest Village: Blanefield
Map Ref: NS5125181730
Latitude: 56.005364N Longitude: 4.387126W
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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The cairn is covered in ferns and therefore difficult to assess now but come Autumn or Spring when all the growth has died back, this cairn will stand out more. Google Earth shows the cairn as a dark green smudge if you know where to look.
This is an interesting find as the cairn would seem to be on the same size as the well-known Stockiemuir Chambered Cairn further west near the Whangie. If it is a chambered cairn on that scale it identifies another unique Clyde Cairn. The extensive fern growth covers what is a huge deposit of collapsed stones but again makes it difficult to identify the main features.
The views north up to Ben Lomond (the Beacon Hill) are magnificent from the standing stones and the chambered cairn. All about are other neolithic features which this site seems to centre: the 2 hills to the west, the Stockimuir cairn, the sacred wells at Katythirsty Hill a mile away and at Dumgoyach also, and in the distance the old church in the village with its own standing stone and then beyond that Dunglass Hill marking the strath to the east.
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