<< Our Photo Pages >> Pitcorthie. - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Fife
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Pitcorthie. Alternative Name: Aberdour Road, Easter PitcorthieCountry: Scotland County: Fife Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Dunfermline Nearest Village: Pitcorthie
Map Ref: NT11398633 Landranger Map Number: 65
Latitude: 56.061577N Longitude: 3.424623W
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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Anne T visited on 2nd Nov 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 2 Access: 4 Pitcorthie Standing Stone, Dunfermline: Our last site visit of our short holiday, and I wish we'd picked a better spot to end on. After the Balfarg Henge, I shouldn't have been surprised that this stone is surprisingly right in the middle of a housing estate, on Standing Stone Walk.
It is a poor, sadly neglected stone; it could just have been a garden feature, especially as it is set in a rectangular pavement of black stones. Like a previous visitor to the stone, being surrounded by rows and rows of houses, we very much felt watched as I was taking photographs and looking around.
hamish have visited here
Although it is a pretty cool stone the presence of 100 living and bedroom windows does not induce a lengthy stay.
NMRS state that the stone appears to have been subjected to fire or heat. It has been subjected to graffiti. This unsculptured standing stone, on the crest of slightly rising ground, is 5'10" high; 3' from the ground, its girth is 11'10". It is of sandstone, main axis N-S, and appears to have been subjected to fire or heat.
When seen in 1959, this stone was as described but by 1972 it had been set in a pavement of granite setts as a "feature" in a green space in a housing estate. Rather a soul-less setting, this stone has little or no 'feel' to it these days, and it is hard to visulaise what it may have looked like in its original setting.
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