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Photo Pages: Drumend - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
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Submitted by BigSweetie on Sunday, 14 December 2003 Page Views: 2999
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 Site Name: Drumend Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Blairgowrie Nearest Village: Rattray
Map Ref: NO20184582 Landranger Map Number: 53
Latitude: 56.597459N Longitude: 3.301566W
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 stone in Perthshire
From the centre of Perth, head E across the river, and join the A93 heading N. You will drive through Guildtown, pass the famous Meikleour beech hedge, and the cursus called the Cleaven Dyke before reaching Blairgowrie. Continue on the road that you are on, and it will take you into the centre of town. You will see a triangular grassy area on your right as you approach some traffic lights. Go into the left lane, which will take you left over the River Ericht. The road climbs, and you will pass on your left a turn-off for Glenshee and Braemar. Instead, stay on the road that you are on (now the A926) and leave Blairgowrie to the E.
Drumend is approximately 2.0km from the bridge over the Ericht. It is in a field on the left, close to the left-hand (W) boundary, about 150m up the field, but can be quite difficult to see from the road. This is a fast and narrow road, with few places to park. I would suggest
either parking on the edge of Blairgowrie and walking the 1.0km or so to the stone, or looking for a farm drive that you can pull into without blocking.
Dimensions:
stone - 1.6m tall
Notes:
This single standing stone sits on a slight mound towards the NW corner of a field off the A926. Standing 1.6m tall, it swells slightly around its middle, where it is wider than at it's base or top. Around its base is piled field clearance, and it has obviously been scraped by farm machinery at some point. Although a largely unremarkable stone, it's a nice site, with a good view to the south, over Strathmore, towards the King's Seat and the distant Sidlaws.
References (books):
Coles, F R (1909) 'Report on stone circles surveyed in Perthshire (South-East District), with measured plans and drawings; obtained under the Gunning Fellow- ship'
Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 43, 1908-9, p113
NSA (1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy 15v, Edinburgh, Vol.10, p241
OSA (1791-9) The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes Sir John Sinclair (ed.), Edinburgh, Vol.4, p150
RCAHMS (1990) RCAHMS - North-east Perth: an archaeological landscape Edinburgh, p23, No.70
Tranter, N (1971) The Queen's Scotland - The Heartland
London, p41
References (websites):
Stone Circles in Angus and Perthshire
CANMORE
The Modern Antiquarian
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 Drumend submitted by cosmic
Drumend in Perthsire is in a field to the North of the A926 just to the East of Blairgowrie. It looks to be always an arable field and because of the crop of barley I couldn't see the other sides.
 Drumend submitted by cosmic
 Drumend submitted by BigSweetie
Drumend standing stone NO 2018 4582 Perthshire
 Drumend submitted by BigSweetie
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