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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Gleneagles B Alternative Name: The Blackford Stone; Peterhead Farm B (Gleneagles); Loaninghead B; Blackford B
Country: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Auchterarder  Nearest Village: Gleneagles
Map Ref: NN92430981  Landranger Map Number: 58
Latitude: 56.268545N  Longitude: 3.738473W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Anne T visited on 13th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Peterhead Farm Pictish Symbol Stone: Right next to the A9, so the atmosphere wasn’t brilliant, but ignoring the traffic, looking east, this was a glorious setting. There was a gate into this field full of sheep, so we let ourselves in and walked over to the stone, which now sits within 30m of a slip road leading to the A9. The Gleneagles roundabout with its golf club ‘sculpture’ provide a strange backdrop. The views to the east are somewhat different, and facing this way, you could almost believe you were in the country. Whilst the black clouds were gathering to the north and east, there was no rain. I was fascinated by the two quartz inclusions underneath the symbols.

Klingon visited on 4th Oct 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 4



Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 3 Access: 4

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by cosmic : The Incised Mark/s on the North Side (Vote or comment on this photo)
Class I Pictish Symbol Stone in Perthshire. Hemmed in with Heras fencing and so easily removed (and replaced) is this unusual Class I stone. The design consists of a birds head at to top and a design of three rectangles on top of each other.

For more information on this Pictish Symbol stone see Canmore ID 25924, which gives details for both Gleneagles A and Gleneagles B stones. They describe Gleneagles B, to be found at NN 9243 0980, as: "('B') Two symbols have been incised on the north side of what was very probably a pre-existing standing stone."

The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this site - see their entry for Gleneagles ‘B’, Blackford, Perthshire, which gives directions for finding this stone together with photographs, a 19th century drawing of the stone, a drawing of the carvings and a brief archaeology & history.

TNA add a description from 1893, which reads: “On the south side of the road from Blackford to Auchterarder, about 150 yards west from Loaninghead where the line of the road is crossed by that from Gleneagles to Crieff, stands a fine stone of Highland grit. It measures 4ft. 10in. in height above ground, 10ft. in girth at the base, and 6ft. 9in. in circumference at top. It shows four sides of nearly equal measurement:— that facing north being 2ft 4in., south 2ft. 8in., west 2ft 5in., and east 3ft. On the north is an incised figure in the form of an parallelogram, 10in. broad by 9in. high, divided into three equal portions by two horizontal lines.”
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Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by Anne T : Looking to the north/north east, we could almost believe we were in the countryside (ignoring the roar of the evening traffic on the A9 behind us). Whilst the black clouds gathered in the distance, there was no rain. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by wallace : The Blackford Stone. Hemmed in with Heras fencing and so easily removed (and replaced) is this unusual Class I stone. The design consists of a birds head at to top and a design of three rectangles on top of each other. Site in Perth and Kinross Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Gleneagles B submitted by cosmic : View from South (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by cosmic : View from Symbol Stone towards other Gleneagles stone (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Gleneagles B submitted by cosmic : Looking towards the wood (Vote or comment on this photo)

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by Anne T : The sunlight was so bright on this stone, we could only make out the rectangle with its two internal, transverse lines on the day. Looking back on the photos, there are traces of the goose above. I was fascinated by the quartz inclusions near the symbols, presumably why this stone was chosen, and why the symbols are on this side of the stone.

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by Anne T : It seemed incongruous to see a Pictish Symbol stone so near to a road and a roundabout with modern golf clubs 'sculpture' - an eclectic mix of dates and styles!

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by Anne T : Walking to the symbol stone from the gate into the field on the single track road from the roundabout to Peterhead Farm at NN 92391 09712; there is enough room to park one or two cars here. It is so near the slip road onto the A9 - about 25 to 30m, which sort of destroys the atmosphere of this stone. Its the first Pictish symbol stone we've seen in situ.

Gleneagles B
Gleneagles B submitted by wallace : A close up of the designs. NB Access is from a C-road, which will run parallel to a new slip road for the A9. Site in Perth and Kinross Scotland

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Re: Gleneagles B by Anne T on Friday, 27 October 2017
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The names of these stones, Gleneagles A and B, were the opposite to those on the Canmore record, going by their NGRs and stone names, so I've changed the SID page names to match and swapped the photos on both pages.

However, I think the photographs submitted were muddled, and I've had a best guess at moving them to the right SID. I'll have another look over the weekend (28th/29th) to double check.

If anyone has visited this site and knows for definite which stone is which, if they could put a comment under the individual picture, and I'll swap it to the right page. Thanks!
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Re: Gleneagles A by cosmic on Saturday, 19 February 2005
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This appears on the OS 1:50,000 Map as a Symbol Stone but is almost certainly a standing stone on to which a Pictish Symbol has been incised at a later date. It is just off the Gleneagles turn-off on the A9.
Another stone (called Gleneagles B on Megalithic) lies about 300m to the West. RCAHMS labels them the other way round!
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Re: Gleneagles A by cosmic on Saturday, 19 February 2005
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According to RCAHMS this stone fell over in 1990 and was re-erected by the farmer and the HBM Area Inspector. It is within viewing distance of Gleneagles B.
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