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The Maiden Stone (Tullibody)
Trip No.109 Entry No.7 Date Added: 12th Nov 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Scotland (Clackmannanshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
The Maiden Stone (Tullibody) submitted by Anne T on 12th Nov 2018. Site in Clackmannanshire Scotland. The Maiden Stone from the east. Whilst there are no visible carvings on the coped cover, I thought it might resemble how a hogback looked on a Viking tomb.
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Log Text: The Maiden Stone, Tullibody: This stone coffin is next to the ruins of the old church. We parked in the car park for the new church and walked through the graveyard which runs parallel to the road. Some really unusual tombstones, and quite spooky to walk through the graveyard and look around the outside of the Old Church as dusk was falling on Halloween!
Haer Stane
Trip No.109 Entry No.8 Date Added: 12th Nov 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Clackmannanshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Haer Stane submitted by Anne T on 12th Nov 2018. Site in Clackmannanshire Scotland. Approaching the Haer Stane, which is at the far (north western) end of the park. It was dusk on Halloween, and the light was failing fast!
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Log Text: Haer Stane, Tullibody: This is one of the strangest erratics I’ve seen, as it’s been repurposed as a war memorial. We parked on School Road, by the school, and walked down to the entrance to this long, thin park; the only gate we could find into this area was through a lych gate at the corner of School Road and Lychgate Road. The erratic is almost at the far (north western) end of the park.
The stone was adjacent to the rear of the school where a large construction project is taking place, so the noise was very intrusive. We were the only people taking note of this erratic; all the other people around must have been locals who were walking their dogs.
The crosses on the eastern face of the cross shaft have been well done, and mimic Anglo Saxon crosses with interlaced designs.
Deil's Cradle (Dollar)
Trip No.109 Entry No.5 Date Added: 11th Nov 2018
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Scotland (Clackmannanshire)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 3
Deil's Cradle (Dollar) submitted by Anne T on 11th Nov 2018. Site in Clackmannanshire Scotland. With this large erratic at the bottom of a small gorge, with daylight failing, we wanted to get to Tullibody to see the Maiden's Stone, so photographed it from a distance only.
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Log Text: Devil's Cradle, Dollar: With this being Halloween, I was keen to try and see this massive erratic rock. From the Wizard’s Stone eastwards, the road gets narrower, not much wider than a single track road, so we parked in Tarmangie Drive, at NS 96743 99038, and walked up Upper Hillfoot Road (the southern part) at NS 96743 99038. Looking down through the woodland, we saw a large erratic by the side of a small burn.
This stone is in a very deep gorge, and we couldn’t immediately see a way to get to it With a 70 degree slope on one side and a near vertical drop on the other, we decided, with the failing light, to carry on to Tullibody and see sites which we really wanted to get to before dark, so photographed this stone only from a distance.
Wizard's Stone (Dollar)
Trip No.109 Entry No.4 Date Added: 11th Nov 2018
Site Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Country: Scotland (Clackmannanshire)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Wizard's Stone (Dollar) submitted by Anne T on 11th Nov 2018. Site in Clackmannanshire Scotland. Standing just to the east of the stone, looking north west across the footpath.
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Log Text: Wizard's Stone (Dollar): We stopped off at a café in Dollar for a sandwich and cup of tea, then set off north east out of the town to find the Wizard’s Stone. This was really easy to spot. There is a small area to park on Hillfoot Road, where the road divides, at NS 96634 98999.
Rather than walk up ‘the (marked foot) path’ we walked into the field to photograph the stone. There are a number of pieces lying immediately around the stone, the larger of which appears deeply embedded in the ground; a smaller piece looks as if it had spalled off through, perhaps, frost action.
Carleith (Crook of Devon)
Trip No.109 Entry No.3 Date Added: 11th Nov 2018
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Carleith (Crook of Devon) submitted by Anne T on 11th Nov 2018. Using the camera lens on maximum zoom to try and get an idea of this perfectly circular cairn, bounded by a drystone dyke.
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Log Text: Carleith Cairn (Crook of Devon): We didn’t go into the field as there were two very boisterous young bullocks who crowded the gate, along with their protective mothers, so I photographed it mainly from the gate into the field. From the edge of the field, this looked almost completely round, and I would have loved to have walked over it. The view to the distant hills was lovely.
Tullibole
Trip No.109 Entry No.1 Date Added: 11th Nov 2018
Site Type: Sculptured Stone
Country: Scotland (Fife)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Tullibole submitted by Anne T on 11th Nov 2018. The paper sheets covered by plastic on the information board, propped up by the large memorial surrounded by iron railings, were sodden with rain. I photographed the plan for future visitors in case it became illegible in the near future. This shows where to find the hogback pieces, but beware, we only found what we thought were two pieces, deeply buried under grassy tussocks.
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Log Text: Tullibole Church Ruins with hogback in five pieces: Our first stop of the day, and as Andrew told me this was a site where 11 witches were tried, condemned and burned, a site I thought would be a good, spooky, start to the Halloween. But, this is essentially a field with a few gravestones sticking out of it, and it turned out the trials had taken place at nearby Tullibole Castle. The remains of the church are there, on the south side buried deep in the grass and turf, but more visible on the northern side, where several courses of stones stick up out of the ground.
There is a display board next to a large monument surrounded by a metal railing and tall conifers, but we had difficulty orientating ourselves to the photos, eventually picking up the display board (which was propped up against the railings, and taking it over to the chest tombs).
We did find one part of the hogback, and possibly a second, but the grass tussocks were so high, we were unable to find any more pieces.
As the information sheets were covered in plastic, but the rain was seeping through, and they are likely to become even more worn and stained, I photographed a couple of them and typed them up for future reference.
Bull Stone (Crook of Devon)
Trip No.109 Entry No.2 Date Added: 10th Nov 2018
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Yes on 31st Oct 2018. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Bull Stone (Crook of Devon) submitted by Anne T on 10th Nov 2018. The Bull Stone, showing how it sits in relation to the footpath leading south from Church Road, and the farm track leading east.
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Log Text: The Bull Stone, Crook of Devon: We parked in St Serf’s Road, Crook of Devon, at NO 03303 00037 and walked down Church Road, then took the right hand fork of the footpath, which lead almost directly south. Just under 220 metres from the fork, there is a farm track which leads off to the east. The Bull Stone is showed on the map just up this track, on its northern side.
I thought this stone was just part of an old stone wall, as the stone was fragmented and cemented together again. It wasn’t until I saw the photo on TNA that I believed we had seen the right stone! Not a brilliant monument, but a nice, short walk, and another to ‘tick off the list’ of sites seen.