Alternative Names Dunkeld
Site type STANDING STONE(S)
Canmore ID 27206
Site Number NO04SW 7
NGR NO 0449 4107
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish DUNKELD AND DOWALLY
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NO04SW 7 0449 4107.

(NO 0449 4107) Standing Stones (NR)
OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)

Two standing stones, possibly the remains of a circle.
F R Coles 1908

A pair of standing stones, 9' apart and aligned N-S. "A" measures 7'2" x 4'9" x 1'9" and "B" is 4'9" x 4'2" x 1'6".
M E C Stewart 1967

A "two-poster" as described. There is no evidence to suggest a stone circle. Surveyed at 1:10560 scale.
Visited by OS (RD) 22 February 1971

This pair of standing stones lies to the NE of the public road (A984) and is unusually situated at the foot of a steep slope at the rear of a terrace overlooking the River Tay. The N stone, which leans slightly to the W, rises to a height of 2.1m, and the S stone is 1.6m high.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 8 October 1986.

Coles and Simpson, J M and D D A (1965) 'The excavation of a neolithic round barrow at Pitnacree, Perthshire, Scotland', Proc Prehist Soc, New, vol.31
Page(s): 49, No. 40

Coles, F R (1908) 'Report on stone circles surveyed in Perthshire - North Eastern section; with measured plans and drawings (obtained under the Gunning Fellowship)', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.42
Page(s): 147-8 figs. 46, 47

RCAHMS (1994b) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. South-east Perth: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh
Page(s): 34, 152 Held at RCAHMS A.1.7.PER