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Muirton

Peterhead Farm; Glen Eagles; Loaninghead; Blackford Auchterarder, Perthshire

Large image (640x725 - 78k) The eastern stone: a view to the east, looking towards Perth.
Large image (800x452 - 64k) The eastern stone: looking south, down Glen Eagles.
Large image (580x946 - 97k) The eastern stone: the east face of the stone (in shadow here) has the Pictish carving.
Large image (320x440 - 43k) The eastern stone: the Pictish carving (a goose over a rectangle) on the eastern face.
Large image (517x700 - 67k) The eastern stone: looking east
Large image (497x666 - 85k) The eastern stone: looking north
Large image (515x670 - 79k) The western stone: looking west
Large image (464x750 - 62k) The western stone: looking north
Large image (523x742 - 73k) The western stone: looking south
Large image (520x699 - 87k) The western stone: looking east
Large image (502x725 - 79k) The western stone: a closer view of the west face

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.

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