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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STANDING STONE [East Pitcorthie] Standing Stone
Standing Stone
Standing Stone
Stone
Mr. Gray Farmer Rennyhill
John Christie Foreman Farmer E. [Easter] Pitcorthie
John Lowden W. [Wester] Pitcorthie
Johnston's Co. [County] Map
020 [situation] About 1 1/2 miles N by W [North by West] from Kilrenny a little south of Pitcorthie.
This stone is on the farm of East Pitcorthie. About 6 or 7 feet is seen above ground, it is about 4ft [feet] broad and 1 ft [foot] thick. No date or inscription of any kind is on it, to shew its use. Neither is there any tradition in the locality regarding it, but the remains of sea weed and small shell fish, show that it was once part of the rocks on the sea shore. It faces east and west, and inclines south to an angle of about 70º.

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13 Parish of Kilrenny Plan 20C Trace 2

[Note] G [German] Text

[Quotation]
"There is another upright stone on the farm of East Pitcorthie about five or six feet above the ground but when or on what occasion erected is not known It bears no date and no characters and there is no tradition concerning it." Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Fifeshire.

[signed] James Ireland c/a [Civilian Assistant] 30th June 1853

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