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Photo Pages: Auchterarder - Standing Stones in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
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Submitted by Nick on Tuesday, 05 November 2002 Page Views: 5743
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 Site Name: Auchterarder Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stones
Nearest Town: Auchterarder Nearest Village: Auchterarder
Map Ref: NN929125 Landranger Map Number: 58
Latitude: 56.292808N Longitude: 3.73198W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Standing Stones in Perthshire
Situated on the Tullibardine road leading NW from Auchterarder, this is an interesting group. The most obvious is a single out on a grassy traffic island but there are another two in dense undergrowth at the side of the road.
The single is heavily girdled, and very easy to access all round, tilted heavily to the east. The other two were almost covered by brambles, so had to be cleared (Scottish Megarack Group meeting) The NE stone has four large, strange gouges on the northernmost face, but little else of distinction. The SW stone, however, Scott maintained had a handprint on the south face. And there was indeed a handprint, faded but still clearly delineated, a medium sized left hand pointed downwards with the thumb straight down. Very interesting, and unusual. Worth a visit for this alone. This is the single stone, showing the girdle mark.
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 Auchterarder submitted by hamish
These are the hedge stones the nearest one you can easily touch but the other one I didn't attempt. Nick and Andy say there is a hand print on the far one but it was inaccessable to me at the time. Must go back to see if there was any damage done at the time of the G8.
 Auchterarder submitted by hamish
This is the stones just on the outskirts of Auchterarder, easy to see but not so easy to access. The one in the middle of the island is of course the first you visit the second on the edge of the hedge you can touch, but the third is most difficult with rusty barbed wire and nettles and brambles.
 Auchterarder submitted by cosmic
View of two on edge of field
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View across road junction
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All three at Easthill Auchterarder
 Auchterarder submitted by Nick
A rather faint photo of the handprint
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Frank demonstrates the handprint
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The SW stone
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The NE stone showing gouges
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Opposite view of the single stone
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Re: Auchterarder (Score: 1)
by BigSweetie on Monday, 06 January 2003
(User Info | Send a Message) | This four-poster circle sat on a pronounced mound originally, but the mound was destroyed on the S side when the road was built, and has been ploughed away on the N side in the field. However, it's profile can still be seen by looking from the road. Two stones sit on the mound, surrounded by brambles behind the hedge, while another stone sits isolated on an island of grass at the junction of Tullibardine Road and Easthill Road. The fourth stone is also thought to be on the island, covered entirely by the grass.
The two hedgerow stones both feature interesting carvings. The NW stone has 4 large gouges cut into it's northern face, but the SE stone is much more interesting. On it's southern face is carved a medium-sized left hand-print, pointing down the way. The hand is quite faded, but can be easily found by running a hand over the surface of the stone.
The stones on the island in the road have fared less well. When Hutchison visited in 1893, both were lying prostrate, the more northerly one (now standing) half-covered by turf, and the more southerly one completely covered. The more northerly stone has a distinctive girdle mark around it's centre, and leans sharply to the E. The more southerly stone is presumably still buried in situ.
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Re: Auchterarder (Score: 1)
by cosmic on Saturday, 19 February 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | According to RCAHMS Canmore Database only the two stones on the field edge were standing in 1967 with a further two stones prostrate. It would seem that the one on the traffic island has been re-erected at some point. The site is considered to be a four poster. RCAHMS labels it as Easthill. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: Auchterarder (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Sunday, 19 June 2005 | | Does the hand carved into this stone bear any relationship to the hand carved on the underside of one of the arms of the cross of Muiredach at Monasterboice? | [ Reply to This ]
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