Glebe Stone
The Glebe Stone ( German Pfarrlandstein ) is a menhir ( English Standing Stone ), which is about 35.0 m north of the A708 (road) from Selkirk to Moffat, about 1.5 km southwest of the village of Yarrow in the Scottish Borders in Scotland .
The Glebe stone is a 0.4 m thick block about 1.4 m high and 0.75 to 1.0 m wide. Its two sides are oriented to the northwest and southeast respectively. On the southeast are located near the base of two suspected bowls ( English cups ). One is 75 mm in diameter and 15 mm deep. The other measures 100 × 125 mm and is 55 mm deep. Around the stone there used to be a large stone mound under which there were a lot of crumbled bones. More than 20 similar piles of stones, one of which contained parts of an old iron spear, are said to have been located nearby.
The Glebe Stone, like the nearby Warrior's Rest, is a classic menhir and not an inscribed gravestone like the Yarrow Stone, about 600 m away . The stones can be seen in the field from the road between Warrior's Rest and Whitefield.
literature
- John R. Baldwin: Lothian and the Borders (= Exploring Scotland's Heritage. ). Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-11-492434-1 .
Web links
- Description Engl. and picture ( Memento from April 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Description Engl. and picture
Coordinates: 55 ° 32 '16.2 " N , 3 ° 1' 38.5" W.