Drybridge (Stane Park)

All pictures copyright © 1998 Martin McCarthy

The monolith at Drybridge. The yardstick to the left of the picture is about six feet tall. Large image (30k 541x280) The monolith at Drybridge. Large image (36k 350x496) The monolith at Drybridge. Large image (26k 300x460) The very square shape of the monolith can be seen here. Large image (46k 544x320) This very flat face and the flat area at the top of the face to the right show signs of cup-marking. Large image (33k 349x519) Cup marks can be seen on the flat area at the top of the monolith. Large image (44k 363x548) Cup marks can be seen here. There are also smaller, sharper dips where stones and pebbles have dropped out of the sandstone matrix. Large image (44k 372x563) The monoloth at Drybridge. Large image (55k 366x571) Cup marks can be seen at the base of this face of the monolith. Large image (37k 314x469) The monolith at Drybridge. Large image (32k 290x471) The monolith at Drybridge. Large image (38k 350x457) The monolith at Drybridge. Large image (46k 345x552)

At Drybridge, near Kilmarnock, in a field known as Stane Park, is a large single standing stone. It stands about nine feet tall and is about fifteen feet in circumference. It is quite square, with a couple of rough faces and a couple of very flat faces. The faces point quite neatly towards the four cardinal points. The flat faces show signs of cup marks, but also similar marks where stones and pebbles may have fallen out of the sandstone matrix of the monolith. The two are most clearly distinguished where there is a stone-hole within a cup mark. A stone hammer was found in the same field during the 1840s.