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Text Pages: Grey Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
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Submitted by BigSweetie on Thursday, 25 March 2004 Page Views: 2091
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 Site Name: Grey Stone Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Perth Nearest Village: St Madoes
Map Ref: NO22172131 Landranger Map Number: 53
Latitude: 56.377651N Longitude: 3.261835W
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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 Grey Stones submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Another lost Shropshire circle remains lost! Largely destroyed by 1883, this was probably originally a bowl barrow, with a diameter of around 100 feet. Revealed and damaged by penetrative ploughing in 1945 and again ten years later, some structure was revealed - but now there is nothing to be seen, it seems.
Transcribing the grid ref places it in lower down on multimap, but putting it onto the GP
 Grey Stones submitted by ShropshireTraveller
Another lost Shropshire circle remains lost! Largely destroyed by 1883, this was probably originally a bowl barrow, with a diameter of around 100 feet. Revealed and damaged by penetrative ploughing in 1945 and again ten years later, some structure was revealed - but now there is nothing to be seen, it seems.
Transcribing the grid ref places it in the field in front of the picture on multimap, but
 Grey Stone submitted by DavidRaven
A large boulder in the grounds of the Harewood House estate near Harrogate.
A very worn carving of seven concentric rings lies on it's north-western flank. The carving faces out over the valley to the conspicuous outcrop called Almscliff Crag. Apparently, the midwinter full moon would have set
behind the crags at the lunar standstill in 1800 B.C.!
If you visit, watch out for the Red Kites and o
 Grey Stone submitted by DavidRaven
Close-up of carving, Grey stone, Harewood, North Yorks. (Grid ref SE315431)
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