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No. 172 -- STANDING STONES -- No. 180

depth, with a fine whitish sand, among which the urn
was standing in an inverted position. Upon removing
the urn, something of a soft slimy nature was found
upon the sand, which, probably, might be the ashes of
human bones. ¹ This appears to have been a small
cinerary urn cemetery, with each burial deposit pro-
tected by a setting of stones (cf. No. 143). If this monu-
ment, whose affinities are discussed in the Introduction
(p. 4), is indeed a Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age
ritual enclosure, it is likely that the burials did not in
fact antedate the construction of the bank but were
subsequently inserted into it.
Immediately outside the bank on the WNW there is
a small sub-circular enclosure of uncertain purpose
(950405). It measures about 40 m in diameter within a
stony bank averaging 8.5 m in thickness and up to 0.7 m
high; this bank also has been severely robbed. A gap
on the SE may represent an original entrance.

NS 94 SE -- September 1976

STANDING STONES

172 Standing Stone, Blackhill, Lesmahagow (Site).
There is now no trace of the standing stone 'fully six
feet (1.83 m) high' recorded at a point some 220 m N
of the farm of Blackhill; ² it was apparently removed
before 1954. ³

829442 -- NS 84 SW -- June 1971

173 Standing Stone, Braidwood (Site). The standing
stone recorded on the second edition of the OS map
near the N end of Selkirk Street, Braidwood, ⁴ has since
been removed.

843479 -- NS 84 NW -- June 1971

174 Standing Stone, Cairney Mount, Carluke (Site).
A standing stone situated at Cairney Mount, Carluke,
was destroyed in the early 19th century. ⁵ Nothing further
is known about its location though the name Standing-
stone Well to the SW of Cairney Mount may record its
approximate position.

c. 852505 -- NS 85 SE -- June 1971

175 Standing Stone, Clarkston (Site). There is now
no trace of the standing stone that formerly existed on the
farm of Clarkston. ⁶

c. 8342 -- NS 84 SW -- June 1971

176 Standing Stone, Crookedstane, Elvanfoot. This
stone (Pl. 8c) stands in the middle of a level field 160 m
N of Crookedstane farmhouse. Measuring 1.2 m by
0.6 m at the base, with the long axis aligned NE and
SW, it now leans towards the NW at an angle of 45º
from the horizontal, so that its pointed top stands only
1.4 m above ground-level, although the visible part of
the stone extends to 1.8 m in length; there is evidence ⁷
that the tilting of the stone is not a recent occurrence.
Its surface is covered with natural cup-shaped hollows
caused by weathering.

965153 -- NS 91 NE -- June 1971

177 Standing Stone, 'Crooked Stone', Crooked-
stone. This stone is situated in a field 220 m N of
Crookedstone on a site that commands extensive views
to E and NE. Although formerly leaning at a consider-
able angle, it was set upright in the early 19th century ⁸
and now leans only slightly to the NW. It measures
1.8 m in height, has a girth of 1.4 m at the base, and
rises with straight sides to a rounded top (Pl. 8B).

723500 -- NS 75 SW -- August 1974

178 Standing Stone, Hallhill (Site). There was for-
merly a standing stone on the farm of Hallhill, at a
point about 180 m NW of No. l72, but it had already
been removed to the side of the field by the late 19th
century. ⁹ What may have been the same stone was seen
in 1966 by officers of the Ordnance Survey, who re-
ported that it measured 1.4 m by 0.7 m and 0.3 m in
thickness; ¹° this stone had disappeared by 1974.

827443 -- NS 84 SW -- August 1974

179 Standing Stone, Shawton (Site). No trace now
survives of the stone, 1.4 m in height, that once stood
in a field beside the public road about 120 m NE of
Shawton farmhouse. ¹¹

681490 -- NS 64 NE -- September 1973

180 Standing Stone, Standingstone Hill (Site).
There is now no trace of the standing stone that formerly
stood on the summit of Standingstone Hill (369 m OD). ¹²

759351 -- NS 73 NE -- September 1971

1 Stat. Acct., xii (1794), 39-40; ibid. (reissue), vii (1973),
552-3.
2 TGAS, new series, iii (1895-7), 502; shown on the OS
6-inch map, 2nd edition (1898), sheet xxv SW.
3 OS Record Card NS 84 SW 4.
4 OS 6-inch map, 2nd edition (1898), sheet xxv NW.
5 NSA, vi (Lanark), 581.
6 TGAS, new series, iii (1895-7), 502-3.
7 Wilson, J A, A Contribution to the History of Lanarkshire, ii
(1937), 258.
8 NSA, vi (Lanark), 271.
9 TGAS, new series, iii (1895-7), 502.
10 OS Record Card NS 84 SW 6.
11 Name Book, No. 26, p. 22.
12 Name Book, No. 45, p. 72.

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