Standing Stones at Doune (Glenhead)

All pictures copyright © 1999 Martin McCarthy

The top of the cup-marked stone. The arrow indicates north, and the scale at the side of the arrow is marked in 1cm and 5cm units. Large Image (141kb 735x477) The three stones. The usual yardstick is about five feet nine inches tall. Large Image (82kb 739x375) The northeast stone. Large Image (187kb 940x741) Side view of the row. Large Image (152kb 1134x538) Another view of the northeast stone. Large Image (184kb 972x858) Looking across the central stone. Large Image (148kb 799x714) Detail of the cup marks on the central stone. Large Image (305kb 1122x730)

This row of three or four stones (there are four stones, but it is thought that a prostrate stone at the southwest end of the row was probably split off the standing stone at the northeast end of the row) stand in a straight line running approximately northeast to southwest in a field on a ridge. The two outer upright stones are each about six feet tall (or would be if they were not leaning). The central stone is about four and a half feet tall and has over twenty cup marks on its flattented top surface.