Standing Stone 150m E of Denside Cottage Tannadice, Scotland
Scheduled Monument Data
Standing Stone 150m E of Denside Cottage has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since scheduling.
- Historic Scotland ID
- SM0
- Name
- Denside Cottage, standing stone 150m E of
- Parish
- Tannadice
- County
- Angus
- Easting
- 346317
- Northing
- 760699
- Categories
- Prehistoric ritual and funerary: standing stone
- Date Listed
- 7 October 1935
- Date Amended
- 13 October 1995
Scheduled Monument Description
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
The monument comprises a standing stone of Later Neolithic or Bronze Age date.
The stone stands on the summit of a low hill overlooking the Noran Water. It is some 1.85m high by 2m around the base.
Monuments of this kind served as focal points for ritual activity during the Later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the standing stone and an area around it 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.
