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Photo Pages: Collessie - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by Nick on Tuesday, 05 November 2002 Page Views: 3302
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 Site Name: Collessie Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Cupar Nearest Village: Collessie
Map Ref: NO293132 Landranger Map Number: 59
Latitude: 56.305925N Longitude: 3.144229W
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 Fife
From the A92 north of Glenrothes, take the A91 west towards Collessie. There is a small road leading north just before the railway bridge, follow this until the turn for Newton Farm. Be careful parking, as you must ensure access for the farmer's machinery.
The stone, 2.7m high, carries an incised figure of a naked warrior. Armed with a large rectangular shield and a long spear with a leaf-shaped blade, he marches from right to left across the top third of the monolith. Two other faint symbols, tentatively identified as an arch and a Pictish beast, have been found on the left-hand edge, level with the warrior's chest.
Aerial photography of the field has identified traces of a series of barrow mounds, and the monolith is likely to be a prehistoric standing stone. The stone fell over in 1994, but has since been re-erected and fixed into place. When visited, the farmer was more than happy to point me over the fields to the stone. He reckoned that in his youth the carving was more obvious than it appears today. He said that large numbers of visitors still appear to see the stone, and he was certainly more than happy to advise me how to get there. Be warned, however - this involves climbing over barbed wire and electrified fences, and jumping over a ditch! Well worth it, however!
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 Collessie submitted by cosmic
Collessie in Fife at NO293132 is a Standing Stone about 7.5feet tall.
I reached it across two fields from Melville Home Farm - an easier approach than Nick's.
 Collessie submitted by cosmic
 Collessie submitted by cosmic
 Collessie submitted by cosmic
 Collessie submitted by Nick
Poor close-up of the carving
 Collessie submitted by Nick
The stone looking south west
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