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Rock ArtSite Name: Clach-na-Cruich (Fearnan) Alternative Name: Clach-na-Gruich (Fearnan); St. Ciaran's Seat (Fearnan); Measles Stone (Fearnan)Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Fearnan
Map Ref: NN7186844743
Latitude: 56.577073N Longitude: 4.087367W
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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This cup-marked rock features on both The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) - see their page for Clach-na-Cruich, Fearnan, Perthshire and Canmore ID 25037.
TNA give us directions to find the stone, together with a brief archaeology and history, local folklore and a drawing of the stone from 1884, which is described as a "great chair-shaped boulder with a great 'bowl' on it where the seating section is, and on its top and sides are a few cup-markings".
Canmore records: "is in the middle of a field immediately below Borland farmhouse. It has seven faint cup marks on its upper surface. Rainwater contained in a cavity was supposed to be a cure for measles ..... 'Clach-na-Cruich' or 'Stone of the Measles' (both names verified) is an earthfast boulder in an arable field and measures approximately 1.5m long, 0.8m wide, and 1.0m high. Its upper surface bears at least four shallow cup marks from 3cms to 6cms in diameter and 1cm to 2cms deep. Some of the marks illustrated by Macmillan are clearly due to weathering. The tradition concerning the stone survives locally."
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