<< Our Photo Pages >> Megget Stone - Standing Stone (Menhir) in Scotland in Scottish Borders
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Megget StoneCountry: Scotland County: Scottish Borders Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: Megget Nearest Village: Meggethead
Map Ref: NT1505720292 Landranger Map Number: 72
Latitude: 55.469056N Longitude: 3.345165W
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 12th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Megget Stone, east of Talla Reservoir: Continuing along the twisty, windy road that follows Talla Water, we passed an intrepid cyclist making his way slowly up the hills, and some motorcyclists who had stopped to photographs the waterfalls along the route.
When we got to the grid reference given for the Megget Stone, we couldn’t see it at first, as it was hidden by the gate. There was room for a car to park just past the cattle grid and gate. Hopping out to take photographs and examine this stone in more detail, the cyclist past us, and as he did, I realised that at this point, it was downhill all the way – the watershed.
This stone is definitely a boundary marker, not a true standing stone. It looks as if its eastern face has been broken. In a remote but lovely spot.
For more information see Canmore site no. 49794, which says this stone lies by the side of the Megget-Talla road, at the watershed, at the boundary between Selkirkshire and Peebleshire.
An extract from the Canmore entry from 1950 reads: "The stone is a slab of gritty greywacke, 7 1/2 ins thick, showing traces of dressing along both sides; its height, measured on the W side, is 3 ft 4 ins, but the E side shows a step or shoulder, 3 1/2 ins deep and apparently artificial, at 2 ft 9 ins above ground level. Just below the shoulder the N face is 13 ins broad, and at ground level 11 ins."
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