Featured Title:
See Your Book Here |
 |
| A Guide to Stone Circles (New Edition), Aubrey Burl |
 |
| Login |
|
Don't have an account yet? You can create one. As a registered user you have some advantages like your own home page, fewer ads, and your contributions link to your page. |
| Who's Online |
There are currently, 193 guests and 5 members online.
You are an Anonymous user. You can register for free by clicking here |
|  |
Photo Pages: Macbeth's Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Perth and Kinross
|
Submitted by Hamish on Sunday, 09 March 2003 Page Views: 9585
|
 Site Name: Macbeth's Stone Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Dundee Nearest Village: Meigle
Map Ref: NO280435 Landranger Map Number: 53
Latitude: 56.577888N Longitude: 3.173594W
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 |
4
Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
no data
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. |
no data
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 |
4
Internal Links:    
External Links:               MacBeth's Stone submitted by Nick
This is a truly magnificent stone. Although nothing to do with Macbeth it is a worthy tribute to one of Scotlands greatest Kings. Macbeth law underpins much of Scots Law and he did reign unopposed - except by the Norse - for seventeen years.
There are cupmarks on both main faces of the stone, 4 or 5 on the north face, and quite a number on the southern face. Unfortunately, it has also suffered from vandalism with some names and initials carved on the eastern portion, along with (more suitably), a thistle..
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this pageTo see the most up to date information please register for a free user account.
 Macbeth's Stone submitted by DrewParsons
A deep cup mark on the stone. September 2008
 Macbeth's Stone submitted by DrewParsons
September 2008
 Macbeth's Stone submitted by DrewParsons
September 2008
 Macbeth's Stone submitted by DrewParsons
Macbeth's Stone cup marks in October 2008
 Macbeth's Stone submitted by hamish
This is a truly magnificent stone. Although nothing to do with Macbeth it is a worthy tribute to one of Scotlands greatest Kings. Macbeth law underpins much of Scots Law and he did reign unopposed - except by the Norse - for seventeen years.
 MacBeth's Stone submitted by Nick
More cupmarks on the south face
 MacBeth's Stone submitted by Nick
There are cupmarks on both main faces of the stone, 4 or 5 on the north face, and quite a number on the southern face. Unfortunately, it has also suffered from vandalism with some names and initials carved on the eastern portion, along with (more suitably), a thistle..
 MacBeth's Stone submitted by Nick
The stone looking west
Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.
Nearby sites
In the following links * = Image available
Pop-up a map of these sites
Turn off the embedded Yahoo Map and other distractions
Pop-up a Google Map of these sites
Turn on all information for this site
600m E 81° Belmont Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO28584366)
1.3km NE 49° Meigle Sculptured Stone Museum* Museum (NO28724459)
2.0km W 260° Arthurstone Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO261429)
3.8km S 197° Keillor* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NO273398)
4.8km SW 209° Hill of Ballunie Stone Circle (NO265389)
5.8km NW 319° Pitcrocknie Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO256488)
6.1km SW 239° Kettins Burn* Class II Pictish Symbol Stone (NO23783906)
6.4km NW 307° Alyth* Class II Pictish Symbol Stone (NO24324878)
6.8km NE 31° Philpie Stones Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO302499)
7.0km N 13° Bruceton Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NO290504)
7.0km NW 333° Barry Hillfort Hillfort (NO262503)
7.2km N 358° Drumderrach Stone Circle (NO28005067)
7.2km N 358° Shanzie Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO280507)
7.8km E 109° Auchterhouse Standing Stones (NO345392)
7.9km E 109° Auchterhouse Stone Circle (NO346392)
8.1km W 279° Drumend* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (NO202458)
8.1km W 279° Drumend* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO20184582)
8.2km E 73° Eassie Stone* Class III Pictish Cross Slab (NO35264745)
8.3km E 73° Eassie* Class II Pictish Symbol Stone (NO353475)
8.3km W 274° Rattray Cursus Cursus (NO19744479)
8.5km NE 53° Airlie* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NO332503)
8.7km W 270° The Welton Stone Circle (NO193437)
8.9km NW 315° Shealwalls* Stone Circle (NO239514)
9.1km W 284° Broadmoss Standing Stones (NO198475)
9.8km W 288° Broad Moss Stone Circle (NO197487)
Search the web for Macbeth's Stone with
Google.
Search the web for Macbeth's Stone Standing Stone (Menhir) with
Google.
Try a Google search for images of Macbeth's Stone
New: Google Scholar search for references to Macbeth's Stone |
|
 | |
| 25 Walks: Highland Perthshire £3.99+p&p |
 |
| Auto-Translation (Google) |
|
Translate from English into:
|
|
Re: Macbeth`s Stone (Score: 1)
by Nick on Thursday, 26 December 2002
(User Info | Send a Message) | This is a magnificent stone, standing fully 16 feet tall, a seriously massive piece of rock. There are cup marks on both the northern and southern faces, most on the S.
MacBeth's name is strongly linked with this area. Birnam Wood lies up by Dunkeld, there are traces of a hill fort on Dunsinane Hill a few kilometres SSE, and a nearby hill to this is still named King's Seat. Despite the bad press he received from the Saxon playwright, Shakespeare (who never visited Scotland, and was sucking up to the Stewart monarchy), MacBeth is regarded as one of the better monarchs of Scotland during the troubled times he lived in. He reigned for 17 years, and was the penultimate Celtic King of Scots.
This stone is an appropriate monument to one of Scotland's better kings! | [ Reply to This ]
|
|
Main News