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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
LANG STANE 0' CRAIGEARN Lang Stane o' Craigearn
Lang Stane o' Craigearn
Lang Stane o' Craigearn
Mr Alexander Leslie
Mr Alexander Watt
Revd. [Reverend] George Peter
064 A Standing Stone 11 ½ feet in height, with a girth of similar dimensions at the base and 7 feet at the top. Both history and tradition are silent on the purpose of its erection.
"The only remains of antiquity that are extant in this parish are A long Stone set on end, whose height is 11 ½ feet above ground, and its mean girth 9 feet; Also that sort of a repository for the remains of the dead which is called a Cistvaen, about 5 feet in length and 2 wide, fenced on the four sides below ground with four stones, and covered with a broad piece of granite (all the stones being undressed) and containing a broken urn of burned clay and a few human bones."
New Statistical Account
The site or position of the Cistvaen mentioned in the foregoing abstract cannot be obtained, no one being aware of the existence of such an object.

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Aberdeenshire Parish of Kemnay

As there is no account of this stone traditionally or otherwise the name should be in Old English.

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