Alternative Names Glenballoch Stone; Glenballoch Cottage
Site type CUP MARKED STONE, STANDING STONE
Canmore ID 28707
Site Number NO14NE 11
NGR NO 1852 4826
Council PERTH AND KINROSS
Parish RATTRAY
Former Region TAYSIDE
Former District PERTH AND KINROSS
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NO14NE 11 1852 4827.

(NO 1852 4837) Standing Stone (NR)
OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)

Known as the Glenballoch Stone, this standing stone is a whinstone block 8'6" high and 20' in circumference at the base. On the SE side are cut 13 cup marks, the highest and lowest marks connected by a vertical groove.
J R Allen 1881

A standing stone as described and illustrated. The name "Glenballoch Stone" is not applied locally.
Visited by OS (AA) 29 November 1973

This massive standing stone is situated on the forward slope of a terrace 310m NE of the former saw mill at Craighall. Aligned with its long axis NNE to SSW, it measures 2.6m by 1.7m at the base, rising with sloping sides to a flat top at a height of 2.5m. Close to the base of the E face of the stone, there are nine plain cupmarks measuring up to 80mm by 30mm.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) 7 October 1986.
RCAHMS 1990.

Allen, J R (1881a) 'Notice of three cup-marked stones, and the discovery of an urn, in Perthshire', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.15
Page(s): 89 figs. 6, 7

RCAHMS (1990a) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. North-east Perth: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh
Page(s): 23, No.67 Held at RCAHMS A.1.7.PER