Lochmaben Stone
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The Lochmaben Stone (grid reference NY 3123 6600) is a megalith standing 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 in Scotland. The area is also known as Stormont. Together with a smaller stone it is all that is left of a stone circle dating back to around 3000BC.
The Lochmaben Stone | |
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Coordinates | 54.983875°N 3.076073°W / 54.983875; -3.076073 |
Official name | Lochmaben Stone,standing stone & stone |
Reference no. | SM3378 |
The principal stone or megalith, referred to as the Lochmabonstone by Logan Mack[1] in 1926, has, in the Borders context, an unsurpassed extent of history attached to it. It is an erratic, 7 feet high and 18 feet in girth and weighs approximately ten tons. It is composed of weathered granite, exposed to severe glacial action.
In these treeless flatlands this stone, given its size, would have been a distinctive landmark on the flat Solway Plain for several millennia.