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Site of standing-stones bearing cup-marks. Two standing-stones formerly stood on a small knoll known as 'Greenfield Knowe'. They were locally known as 'The Spittal Stones' although there is no record of such an establishment. They were removed when the Sanitorium was built in 1903. One stone was lost but the other was re-erected about 23 m from its original position according to Hutcheson. Allen recorded that one of the stones was recumbent in 1881 and bore 15 cup-marks, varying from 5-7.5 cm in diameter, one with a single ring carved on the sloping face at the south end of the stone. The upright stone measured 1.52 m x 0.61 m x 1.07 m in height, the recumbent measured 2.29 m x 1.052 m x 0.76m in thickness. The upright stone was also called 'The Witches Stone' and the Ordnance Name Book (ONB) records that it was a survivor of a stone-circle which had been used for wall-building. When visited by the OS in 1967, no trace of a mound or a standing stone was found at NO 3457 3927, but at NO 3460 8928 a large boulder was embedded in the ground. This is probably the re-erected stone. Three slab-like stones embedded in the ground to the immediate east of the boulder are probably natural. No cup-marks were noticed on any of these stones nor was the name 'Spittal Stanes' confirmed.
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