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Pitcorthie.
Trip No.111 Entry No.3 Date Added: 14th Nov 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Fife)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Nov 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 2 Access 4
Pitcorthie. submitted by Nick on 3rd Nov 2003. NT113863
Also known as Easter Pitcorthie, Pitcorthie standing stone resides in the middle of a Dunfermline housing estate. It stands approx 1.5m in height and has an unsculptred and jagged appearance. 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 gro...
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Log Text: 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.
Tuilyies
Trip No.111 Entry No.2 Date Added: 14th Nov 2018
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Fife)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Nov 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Tuilyies submitted by jonathanknox on 3rd May 2012. Tuilyies 3D model #2 -Tuilyies Standing Stones in Fife, Scotland, part of a digital documentation/visualisation pilot project by Pixogram. Accurate retopologised 3D models from photogrammetry to a +-10mm tolerance.
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Log Text: The Tuilyies Stone Setting: There is a small layby on the A985, right by the stones, but as there was no direct entrance into the field, we ended up walking along the grass verge down to where the wire fence is jointed to a wooden one. This is by a small clump of trees, at NT 02801 86657, where we succeeded in clambering over the fence.
The stones are set in a very ‘lumpy and bumpy’ field that looks like it has several building platforms and banks within it, but no structures are visible.
The tall stone to the north north west of the setting of three stones is tall and impressive (although thin) with the eastern face peppered in cup marks.
Combined with the three stones to the south south east reminded us somewhat of the stone setting at Kilmartin. I amused myself by standing behind the taller stone trying to line it up with the three smaller ones, but there was always one stone hidden from view, behind the larger stone.
The Firth of Forth glinted in the sunlight to the south. Shame about the proximity to the main road.