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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Tir Artair Standing Stone (Killin)Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Killin
Map Ref: NN5887034720 Landranger Map Number: 51
Latitude: 56.483370N Longitude: 4.293322W
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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Standing Stone in Perthshire
This stone is recorded as Canmore site no. 24205, which tells us: "This standing stone is situated in a clearing within birch woodland, to the N of a knoll. It measures 1.15m in breadth from N to S by 0.7m in thickness and 1.5m in height. It leans slightly towards the N."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this standing stone - see their entry for Tir Artair, Killin, Perthshire which gives directions for finding this standing stone (described as difficult, due to the excess of deer fences), and photographs. TNA tempts us to visit with this description: "In this “land of Arthur”—as the place-name means—we find this beautiful moss and lichen-encrusted standing stone, living alone in remains of mainly birch woodland. It stands less than 5 feet tall, just in front of some old walling encircling one of the many rounded knolls in this area. The stone may have had some megalithic partners in bygone days, as we find, about 25 yards away sleeping amidst overgrown vegetation beside an old oak, a couple of other old stones laid on the ground that seem to have been placed here by human hands. Their antiquarian nature is unknown."
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