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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: DargillCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Crieff Nearest Village: Muthill
Map Ref: NN85922004 Landranger Map Number: 52
Latitude: 56.358886N Longitude: 3.847959W
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 |
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| -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 |
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markj99 visited on 30th Nov 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 It is often difficult to park up in the vicinity of monuments close to busy roads. Luckily , in this instance there are 2 lay-by's at the junction of a minor road signed for Balloch with the A822 heading S out of Crieff at NN 8580 2012. Walk across the A822 to a gate into a field. Dargill Standing Stone is located c. 110 yards SE of the gate.
Uralsdaughter visited on 22nd Aug 2018 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
MegalithicDania visited on 1st Jul 2016 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 4
Only one stone now remains of a former stone circle. Pronounced as 'Dargle', this site is recorded as Canmore site no. 25443 which contains an entry from 1911 which reads: "The remains of a stone circle between the Crieff-to-Auchterarder road and Dargill Island consist of a squarish block of schist, 7' 8" high and over 16' in girth, and an indistinct mound. Two other great stones were removed in 1909." A more recent 1997 entry adds: "This large standing stone is situated on the edge of a N-facing terrace in the middle of an arable field about 625m NNW of Dargill farmsteading. It measures 1.5m from N to S by 1.2m transversely at the base and stands 2.4m high. A variety of cropmarks have been observed on air photographs in the field around the stone, including four large pits near the stone and what appears to be a pit-circle to the East."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also include a page for this site - see their entry for Dargill, Crieff, Perthshire, which includes photographs, an old drawing by Fred Coles, a directions for finding the stone and a brief archaeology & history and some folklore.
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