<< Our Photo Pages >> Knock and Maize - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Knock and MaizeCountry: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Stranraer Nearest Village: Portslogan
Map Ref: NW9983057873 Landranger Map Number: 82
Latitude: 54.875440N Longitude: 5.121495W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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Anne T visited on 18th Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Knock & Maize Standing Stone: Lovely views of the sea, but the view of the stone was a little spoilt by its proximity to the telegraph poles. It was only when we got into the field and I was photographing the stone that we realised there was a large herd of bullocks down the bottom end of the field. Half of them stood up, but thankfully they were too lazy to come over and take a closer look.
There were lots of smaller boulders around this stone – field clearance or where the stone has been fractured over the years? There are certainly lots of fracture lines and ‘dings’ on the stone. Perhaps the stones are both.
Andy B have visited here
Knock and Maize standing stone Located at a road junction where the Southern Uplands Way meets the B738 on The Rhinns to the SW of Stranraer. A single stone standing bolt upright.
For more information see Canmore site no. 60329 which adds that the long axis is aligned " from NNW to SSE and it measures 1.1m by 0.6m at the base by 1.4m in height. The stone bears two natural cup-marks, and a number of field-cleared stones have been piled around its base ... although the stone may have been set up in the prehistoric period, the Name Book considers it was a cattle rubbing post." The current listing classes this as Prehistoric.
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