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Latitude: 56.7106 / 56°42'38"N
Longitude: -3.1477 / 3°8'51"W
OS Eastings: 329835
OS Northings: 758239
OS Grid: NO298582
Mapcode National: GBR VD.WBQL
Mapcode Global: WH6NY.ML9G
Entry Name: Knowehead, standing stones 250m SSE of
Scheduled Date: 5 September 1935
Last Amended: 17 December 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM126
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
Location: Lintrathen
County: Angus
Electoral Ward: Kirriemuir and Dean
Traditional County: Angus
The monument comprises two standing stones of Neolithic or Bronze Age date.
The monument consists of a standing stone some 2.2m high and an adjacent former standing stone, some 2m long, now lying prone. The stones are located at the E end of a low natural mound on a S-facing slope.
Standing stones such as this were erected in the Later Neolithic and Bronze Age and often remained focal points for ritual activity thereafter.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the stones and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is circular with a diameter of 20m as marked in red on the accompanying map. This scheduling replaces an earlier scheduling of 1935, in which the area to be protected was not adequately defined.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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