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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Witches' Stone, Monzie Alternative Name: Kor Stone (Monzie)
Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Crieff Nearest Village: Monzie
Map Ref: NN87982431 Landranger Map Number: 52
Latitude: 56.397721N Longitude: 3.816462W
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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

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1	Awful
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4 Access:

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
0	no data

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crediblywitless visited on 6th Feb 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 4 This stone leans just about perfectly north, as far as I could figure it out, and due south of it is the pretty symmetrical "Kate McNeiven's Crag" (as the OS labels it). This means that seen from the stone, the sun takes a pretty symmetrical path over the crag, every day. I don't think this can possibly be a chance thing. Also, the lean of the stone due north means that it looks remarkably like a sundial and could well function that way pretty effectively.

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**Witches' Stone, Monzie** submitted by cosmic : Viewed from East (Vote or comment on this photo)

Standing Stone in Perthshire

Update January 2018: The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) features a page for this standing stone - see their entry for Witches Stone, Monzie, Crieff, Perthshire, which gives directions for finding this stone togethre with photographs, a 1911 drawing of the stone, a brief archaeology & history and local folklore. Part of the TNA text reads: "In J. Romilly Allen’s (1882) account, he mentions the stone only in passing, telling it to be 'a single standing stone measuring 4 feet by 3 feet and 5 feet high (with) no markings on it.' It was later described in Fred Coles’ (1911) survey of the region where he told: 'This monolith is the westerly of the two prehistoric sites grouped on the O.M. as Standing Stones. It stands a few yards to the south of the avenue, almost half a mile from the East Lodge. The Stone has a slight lean towards the north. Its southern side is remarkably broad and smooth, measuring 4 feet across the base on that side, in girth 13 feet 1 inch and in vertical height 4 feet 9 inches'."

The stone is also recorded as Canmore ID 25448, a 1996 report from which reads: "This stone is situated in an arable field to the S of the drive leading to Monzie Castle. It measures 1.2m from WNW to ESE by 0.9m transversely and stands 1.7m high. The stone leans to the N. Neither the causeway nor the mound recorded by Crawford in 1936 could be seen on the date of visit."
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