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STANDING STONE [Knockdon] Standing Stone Mr. Wm. Dunlop, Knockdon. Mr Peter King, Miller, Eallabus. Mr David Brock, Estate Clerk, Islay House. Mr James Cowan, Forester, Bluehouse 208 This stone is about six and a half feet in height by three in circumference and tapering from the foundation until it forms into a narrow point. It is situated upon an eminence in a pastoral field about 1/8 mile Southeast from Knockdon and about the same distance Northwest from the Northwest end of Loch Skerrols. No information can be ascertained as to when or by whom, this stone was erected, every body says that it has been there, since they can remember and that is all the information they can give. But it is quite probable that it was erected by the Druids or Culdees most likely the first

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