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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Sheriff Muir Row Alternative Name: Wallace's Stone, Lairhill; Lairhill Stones; Wallace Stone; Sheriffmuir Stone RowCountry: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Stone Row / Alignment
Nearest Town: Dunblane
Map Ref: NN83240226 Landranger Map Number: 57
Latitude: 56.198578N Longitude: 3.883441W
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 |
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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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Anne T visited on 13th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Sheriffmuir Stone Row: Please can I claim the Portal prize for 'the most horsefly bites at one ancient site'? At first glance, it looked easy to walk to this stone row. The reality was it was a couple of hundred yards from the road, in deep heather. Having waded through the shrubbery, and having found the Wallace Stone, however, finding the rest of the stones was easy, as they are more or less in a line running north east to south west. I managed to pull up Sandy G’s ”Stone Rows of Great Britain” website, with details of the stones, which helped enormously.
The horse flies were horrendous. I got eaten alive, and was glad to get back to the car to slap some antihistamine on. It was a real shame the Sheriffmuir Inn wasn’t open, as we were desparate for a cold drink (any drink, really) by the time we’d walked to, and photographed, all five stones.
We decided to go onto Dunblane for a cup of tea and something to eat (and lots of antihistamine cream for me!). Despite all the bites, I thoroughly enjoyed exploring this stone row, in the brilliant sunshine and glorious views.
SandyG visited on 2nd Oct 2016 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 Road verge car parking is available at NN 83209 02579. From here carefully cross the road, enter the field opposite via the gate then walk about 300m due south.
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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 5 Access: 4
This stone row is recorded as Canmore site no. 25274 which says: "An alignment of five stones (four of which are now prostrate) runs from NN 8307 0214 to NN 83300232, and includes the Wallace stone at NN 83240226; this is 1.8m high and is the only one still erect. One of the others is cup-marked."
A more detailed description is given in the Canmore record from 1893 which adds the stones are " running in a direction south-west to north-east, 253 degrees. The first is 7ft long, 8ft in circumference at one end and 6ft at the other. On the exposed side, which, when the stone was erect, would be the SE, are over 20 cup-marks, from 1 1/2 to 2ins in diameter. About 75 yards distant and in the same line with the standing stone lies a roughly rectangular stone 6ft 6ins long and about 10ft in circumference. The next in the series is a flat stone 5ft 6ins long and 4ft 6ins broad, sunk in the ground, and slightly out of line but near it and in more exact line is a small stone 4ft long. These may be fragments of a single stone. The interval between this and the standing stone is about 150 yards, which suggests that a stone is missing. Next is the Wallace Stone and beyond this in the same line at a distance of about 75 yards, is a stone 10ft long and from 16 to 18ft in girth."
Also see the Modern Antiquarian's page for Sheriffmuir Stone Row.
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for Wallace's Stone and the stone row - see their entry for Wallace’s Stone, Dunblane, Stirlingshire which gives directions for finding this site, together with a description of the alignment, and local folklore.
The Wallace Stone is said to have been placed on the muir as a gathering place for Wallace’s troops and to commemorate Wallace’s victory over the English at Stirling Bridge. Although Wallace may indeed have used the stones as a meeting place, the stones themselves were placed on the muir several thousand of years before Wallace’s victory.
Update November 2019: This alignment is also featured on the Stone Rows of Great Britain website - see their entry for the Sheriff Muir Row, which includes a description, a plan of the row, photographs of the alignment and its individual stones, access information and a list of online resources for more information.
The row is also scheduled as SM4539 (Lairhill, standing stone alignment 400m SSW of) on the Historic Environment Scotland (although the site description and the map location displayed is the same as Canmore's, the grid reference given is slightly different).
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