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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Clach-a-Mharsain Alternative Name: Stone of the PackmanCountry: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Pitlochry Nearest Village: Kinloch Rannoch
Map Ref: NN65385892
Latitude: 56.702525N Longitude: 4.200295W
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Clach-a-Mharsain which means the ‘Stone of the Packman’. The legend tell of a wandering pedlar who had been travelling with a pack slung over his shoulders. He sat down by the stone to rest, putting his pack on top of it, it slipped down the back of the stone and the loop at the front caught round his neck. The heavy pack trapped him and he died of strangulation.
The stone is on the edge of the grounds of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel. and is hard to miss, though I did, and had to ask the receptionist where it was.....
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