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Latitude: 56.4381 / 56°26'17"N
Longitude: -3.4658 / 3°27'56"W
OS Eastings: 309716
OS Northings: 728282
OS Grid: NO097282
Mapcode National: GBR V6.28RR
Mapcode Global: WH5P0.QFTV
Entry Name: King's Stone, standing stone 90m SE of Denmarkfield Farm
Scheduled Date: 6 November 1929
Last Amended: 22 April 2024
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1556
Schedule Class: Cultural
Location: Redgorton
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a standing stone measuring c. 1.5m high on the banks of the River Tay. It is traditionally associated with the (bogus) Battle of Luncarty.
It appears to be a standing stone of a kind erected for ceremonial or religious purposes in the Neolithic or Bronze Age, between around 3000BC and 1000BC. On excavation some stones are found to have human burials in the sockets or close by.
The scheduled area is a circle 10m in diameter, centred on the stone. It includes the stone and an area around it within which evidence relating to its use is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a surviving feature from a past landscape. Taken with other similar features in the area it has the potential to enhance considerably the way the landscape was used and managed in prehistory.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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