Tag: Lochee

Mylnefield, Longforgan, Perthshire

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Stone Circle (destroyed):  OS Grid Reference – NO 332 430 (approximation)

Archaeology & History

This stone circle wasn’t logged in either Barnatt (19890 or Burl’s (2000) standard megalith inventories.  The only mention of it seems to be in Alex Elliott’s (1911) rare work on the region, in which he described it as being located “within the grounds of Mylnefield”.  All trace of it would seem to have gone.  Elliott told it to have been,

“elliptical in form and consisted of six large boulders – three at the east, three at the west, with a gap between capable of holding an equal number of stones.”

References:

  1. Elliott Alexander, Lochee – As it Was and As it Is, J.P. Mathew: Dundee 1911.

© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian

Balgay Hill, Dundee, Angus

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Cup-and-Ring Stone (removed):  OS Grid Reference – NO 378 308

Archaeology & History

Cup & ring stone of Balgay Hill

This little-known cup-and ring stone was found at ground level sometime around 2003, near the top of Balgay Hill.  A small portable stone that may have been broken from a larger slab, it has what seems to be two if not three cup-and-rings, accompanied by two or three single cup-marks.  One of the rings seems to have a faint line coming out of it.  Unfortunately none of this is clear in the photos I took (the one attached here is the best), as it lives under glass in Dundee Museum, so it was very difficult to get decent images.  It is now housed in the McManus Museum in Dundee (a damn good place, with very helpful staff) and well worth checking out if you’re in the area.

© Paul Bennett, The Northern Antiquarian