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Text Pages: Devil's Blue Stane - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Fife
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Submitted by vicky on Sunday, 22 December 2002 Page Views: 2331
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 Site Name: Devil's Blue Stane Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Map Ref: NO614079 Landranger Map Number: 59
Latitude: 56.262018N Longitude: 2.624709W
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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 The Devil's Blue Stane submitted by Nick
The stone looking towards the kirk
 The Devil's Blue Stane submitted by Nick
The stone looking east
 The Devil's Blue Stane submitted by Nick
This spectacularly dull stone is included only out of completeness. It stands outside the parish kirk of the little fishing town of Crail, which in itself is worth a visit, but I wouldn't do it just for this stone. It has a story, however, and that's why it's here. According to local author Bruce Durie, in his recent book 'Kirkcaldy and East Fife', the stone is: "A rock hurled by the Devil when
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