Stones of Scotland
The Logan Stone is a grey granite rock and rests on greywacke, and can easily be moved with one hand.
[3] A rocking stone that some associate with the Druids is on Cuff Hill in Hessilhead, near Beith in North Ayrshire.
The accused was made to sit on the stone and by the way it moved the Druids judged the innocence or guilt of the individual.
It is also said to be the burial place of Rhydderch Hael, King of Strathclyde who was the victor at the Battle of Arderydd near Arthuret in the Borders.
It stands in a field, nearly a mile west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth, three hundred yards or so above high-water mark on the farm of Old Graitney in Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland.
On top of the Common Crags overlooking Dunlop and the Glazert is a large procumbent boulder known as the 'Carlin's Stone or Stane'.
Bride, Brigit or St. Brigid was originally a Celtic Goddess linked with the festival of Imbolc, the eve of the first of February.
Carlin's Tooth is the name of a rock outcrop in the Scottish borders between Knocks Knowe and Carter Fell (Logan Mack 1926).
It has been moved from its original position and placed in the town centre on top of a large standing stone, which was quarried locally.
[10] Documentation shows that prior to the 19th century messings-about, newlywed couples and their wedding parties marched around it for good luck, accompanied by a fiddler.
[9] Wedding processions also used to walk three times sunwise round the Dagon stone on the way to the bride's house.
[11] The annual parade or "Prawd", originally held on old New Year's Day, headed by the village band used to walk sunwise round the Dagon stone as a mark of superstitious respect.
But with a Scottish accent it no doubt derives from something much closer to home (assuming it is not just the romantic invention of a Victorian antiquary).
A large procumbent boulder known on the OS map as the 'Carlin's Stone' lies next to the Carlin Burn near Craigends Farm below Cameron's Moss in East Ayrshire.
A large boulder in amongst trees near the David Hamilton designed Ladyland House, Kilbirnie, North Ayrshire.
The Muckle or Hare stone is a glacial erratic boulder previously located in a nearby field and moved to the centre of Monkton, near Prestwick, in 2000.
[13] Near Laigh Overmuir on the moors above Darvel in East Ayrshire is the Gowk Stane, a glacial erratic boulder located in a prominent position overlooking the upper tributaries of the Glen Water.
The purpose of cup and ring marked stones is unknown, however they may represent family trees, star maps, br related to labyrinths, etc.
This example from Dalgarven Mill in Ayrshire is unusual in having cups and connecting troughs, but no rings and it may therefore have been abandoned at an early stage in its use.
