Muirton (Peterhead Farm; Glen Eagles; Loaninghead; Blackford)

All pictures copyright © 1999 Martin McCarthy

The eastern stone: a view to the east, looking towards Perth. Large Image (94kb 640x725) The eastern stone: looking south, down Glen Eagles. Large Image (77kb 800x452) The eastern stone: the east face of the stone (in shadow here) has the Pictish carving. Large Image (117kb 580x946) The eastern stone: the Pictish carving (a goose over a rectangle) on the eastern face. Large Image (51kb 320x440) The eastern stone: looking east Large Image (67kb 517x700) The eastern stone: looking north Large Image (85kb 497x666) The western stone: looking west Large Image (79kb 515x670) The western stone: looking north Large Image (62kb 464x750) The western stone: looking south Large Image (73kb 523x742) The western stone: looking east Large Image (87kb 520x699) The western stone: a closer view of the west face Large Image (79kb 502x725)

In a field by the A9, just as it goes through Glen Eagles, is a megalith with an indistinct Pictish symbol. And a stunning view. Those Picts certainly knew how to pick their spots. Anthony Jackson (in The Pictish Trail) suggests that this is a carving of a stag, but I can't see it myself. A.Mack described it (in Field Guide to the Pictish Stones, 1997) as a goose over a rectangle, which I think is altogether more likely. A few hundred yards away to the west is another megalith which the Picts did not reuse. This stone fell in 1990 and was re-erected.