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Historic Scotland’s Meigle Museum website
This is a stunning wee museum and well worth an hour of anybody’s time. The collection of Pictish carved stones is just fabulous.
Hit the links for the HS website which has more details.
I went along here on the 14th May 2010. It’s easy to find and there’s parking nearby. Despite it being just along the road from Stirling I had never visited the site before.
The Broch is the victim of ongoing vandalism, negelect and wanton theft. There is a rumour of stone being spirited away by a local landscape gardener on a quad bike.
There is no sign of the “slab, 13.0cm in diameter, sculptured with three concentric rings, ... five stones into the stair lobby from the inner face of the broch” nor of the “complex carving on a recumbent stone slab at the end of the entrance passage, immediately inside the broch. The carving is of a bar, 19cm long, 9cm wide at one end, and a figure of eight at the other” mentioned on Canmore.
All in all it was quite a dispiriting visit and a real condemnation of the authorities responsible for conserving our heritage.
View towards Stirling Castle – that little dot on the horizon.
Looking towards the entrance and doorway leading to the internal staircase
Rear view of Stone 2 and, on the right hand side, the cast of the cup marks from the base of Stone 1.
A detail of Stone 1 showing the cup marks. Others are concealed under the concrete base supporting the stone. A cast of these others was taken and can be seen in the museum.
The base of Stone 1 showing the cup marks. Others are concealed under the concrete base supporting the stone. A cast of these others was taken and can be seen in the museum.
Meigle Museum page on Rock Art UK
Shows most of the stones. Nice shot of Stone 1 which has cup marks on the base, Pictish symbols on one face and Christian symbols on the other.
The plaque erected by Clacks Council.
Now “restored” and replaced. See plaque image for futher details.
Just a location shot – the stone is on the edge of a golf course so you have to watch out for flying balls.
theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2525441.0.Neolithic_temple_revealed_at_site_on_Orkney.php
The Stone Age equivalent of a cathedral has been unearthed in Orkney, the largest structure of its kind found in Britain.
It dates to the Neolithic period (7000-1700BC) and was found not far beneath the surface of the narrow strip of land that divides Harray Loch from Stenness Loch on the Orkney mainland.
It is an area that is at the heart of Orkney’s World Heritage Site which boasts extraordinary archaeological richness. The building has been found between two of of the most famous standing stones sites in the world, the Ring O’ Brodgar and the Standing Stones O’ Stenness.
The cross at Aird a’ Mhorain. Getting fainter by the year!
The cupstone at Aird a’ Mhorain. There’s something about these that makes me think they are natural.