Glenballoch Standing Stone

Also known as:
Craighall and Glenballoch Cottage
Nearest town:
Rattray (3km S)
OS reference:
NO1851748263
OS sheet:
53
Latitude:
56° 37' 6.74 N
Longitude:
3° 19' 41.62 W
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Image of Glenballoch Standing Stone by thesweetcheat

The stone from the road, with the four poster stone circle on its little mound behind to the right.

Image credit: A. Brookes (17.10.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 29, 2024
Image of Glenballoch Standing Stone by thesweetcheat

The group of four cupmarks can just be seen bottom right near the base of the stone, although it’s not the clearest angle.

Image credit: A. Brookes (17.10.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 29, 2024
Image of Glenballoch Standing Stone by thesweetcheat

Looking south across the valley. According to Canmore: About 1861, a possible cup-marked slab was found by Mr Harris, Glenballoch farm, ‘on the opposite side of the valley to the SE of the Glenballoch Stone’. It is described as having two rows of cup-marks (alternatively circular and square) arranged ‘symmetrically in two rows’ on its upper surface. The stone was subsequently broken up and used in the construction of Kynballoch steading.

Image credit: A. Brookes (17.10.2023)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 29, 2024
Image of Glenballoch Standing Stone by Moth

View from road showing circle’s setting

Image credit: Tim Clark
Moth
Moth Nov 18, 2003
Image of Glenballoch Standing Stone by Martin

28/7/02- the cup markings on the side of the standing stone looking down on the site they represent (in the patch of grass at the end of the field)

Martin
Martin Aug 22, 2002

Articles

Glenballoch Standing Stone

Martin
Martin Aug 8, 2002

Glenballoch Standing Stone
AKA Craighall or Glenballoch Cottage
28/7/02
Walking up to this monster monolith from the nearby stone circle, this stone simply dominates the horizon. It’s huge. 2.5 m high by a maximum of 2.6 m wide. Round on its east side, near the base, are six, possibly seven, cup marks- difficult to see as some of them have eroded over the centuries. However, there are four extremely deep (about 4 cm) marks set in a square- two 7 cm and two 5 cm diameter cups. It just seems so blatantly obvious to me that this is a representation of the circle seen from here only 200 m down the hill.

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