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St Mary's Well (Rothsay)
Trip No.51 Entry No.1 Date Added: 8th Oct 2017
Site Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Country: Scotland (Isle of Bute)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
St Mary's Well (Rothsay) submitted by Anne T on 8th Oct 2017. St Mary's Well, showing it's sadly disused, dry state.
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Log Text: St. Mary's Well, Rothsay: Almost immediately across the road from St Mary's Chapel, set into a dry stone wall and very sadly neglected. There is no outlet but the remains of a metal tethering ring for a cup or ladle is still embedded in the arch. Worth a walk across from the chapel to take a look.
St Blane's Well
Trip No.51 Entry No.2 Date Added: 8th Oct 2017
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Isle of Bute)
Visited: Yes on 25th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
St Blane's Well submitted by Anne T on 8th Oct 2017. View of this well from the north. By this time of the afternoon, the sea haar was coming in with a vengeance, and with the last of the sun's rays coming through, this site was very atmospheric.
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Log Text: St. Blane's Well, Isle of Bute: After St. Mary’s Chapel and Well, we made our way to the south end of the island, by which time the mist was starting to come in from the sea. There is a layby at NS 09299 53076 for around 6 cars at the start of the path uphill to the chapel. I was very disappointed to find quite a few other visitors there. They must have done what we did, and made their way straight to the south end of the island to work their way back. Should have timed it better.
At this site, as well as the chapel, there is a holy well, a hogback and a cross shaft. This whole place is very ancient and it was atmospheric in the mist.
St Blane's Chapel (Isle of Bute)
Trip No.51 Entry No.3 Date Added: 8th Oct 2017
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Isle of Bute)
Visited: Yes
St Blane's Chapel (Isle of Bute) submitted by Anne T on 8th Oct 2017. This cross-base/socket stone is embedded within the ground in the lower (southern part) of the graveyard. There is apparently another cross base 70m north of the chancel, although we were unable to find this.
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Log Text: Cross base/socket stone, St. Blane's Chapel, Isle of Bute: Whilst I was wandering through the ruins of the chapel and photographing it, husband Andrew was in search of this sandstone socket in the lower churchyard. In the end, it was easy to find – head south out of the ruins, into the upper churchyard, down the steps, and it is virtually in front of you to your left hand side. I confess that without the Canmore record, I might have very well missed this, as I’m used to seeing socket stones that are sitting on the ground, not buried within it.
Airthrey Stone
Trip No.51 Entry No.1 Date Added: 9th Oct 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Stirling)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Airthrey Stone submitted by rogerkread on 16th Oct 2015. The Northern face of the Airthrey Stone.
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Log Text: Airthrey Castle Standing Stone, Stirling University: I have visited the University of Stirling on a number of occasions over the years, visiting an organisation at the Beta Innovation Park, but not known (until I saw them on the Portal) that there were standing stones within the grounds.
We parked at the Wallace Monument, thinking it would be quick half hour walk around Stirling University Campus. Wrong! From the car park, we walked east up Hillfoots Road (the B989) cutting into the Alpha Centre Innovation Park, then walking round the east side of the lake to the University Sports Ground.
As soon as we reached the fence into this area, this huge standing stone stood out. I found the stiles a little too high for my dodgy knees, so it was interesting getting over them!
The surrounding hills, and the view back to the Wallace Monument make this an interesting spot. There were lots of dog walkers and students around, but none seemed to take any notice of the stone – presumably they are all familiar with it. By the time we’d visited Logie Old Church and the Pathfoot Standing Stone, my feet were aching! But no time to relax – Stirling Castle called with a loud, clear voice!
Pathfoot Stone
Trip No.51 Entry No.3 Date Added: 9th Oct 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Stirling)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 5
Pathfoot Stone submitted by rogerkread on 14th Oct 2015. Side view.
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Log Text: Pathfoot Standing Stone, University of Stirling: Walking back across the campus from Logie Old Church, we got caught in a very heavy shower of rain and had to shelter by the student residences at the western side of the campus.
When I caught sight of this, I thought this was a sculpture, not a real standing stone at first. It is at the side of Armitage Road, just north of its’ (busy) junction with Grange Road at the north western side of the campus. We clambered up the wet, slippery slope to take some photos, stared at by the passing students.
By this time, my feet were aching, as we’d spent the best part of 2 hours walking round and round the campus. With Stirling Castle still to come, I welcomed getting back into the car.
Logie Old Kirk (Stirling)
Trip No.51 Entry No.2 Date Added: 9th Oct 2017
Site Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Country: Scotland (Stirling)
Visited: Yes on 26th Sep 2017. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Logie Old Kirk (Stirling) submitted by Anne T on 9th Oct 2017. The hogback as seen from its northern side. Just to its north of this stone is a collection of broken stones, orientated north-south which look like another broken up hogback, but nothing is mentioned by Canmore.
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Log Text: Hogbacks at Logie Old Kirk, Stirling: To reach the church from the University Halls of Residence, we had to walk through the gardener’s compound/offices. The top two gates around the churchyard were locked; the actual entrance was next to the small stone building to the south of the churchyard, near the stream, with an information board by a small car park, so there is access from the main road.
The churchyard is full of wonderful (morbid!) tombstones. Could have spent the day photographing them. It was also a lovely location with a small stream trickling along the eastern side of the churchyard.
Found one hogback SE of the church, the second is just a lump at the end (by the church) of the 6th row of graves, counting from the stream at the east end of the churchyard. A wonderful location. Really could have spent hours here.