At Drybridge, near Kilmarnock, in a field known as Stane Park, is a large single standing stone.
It stands about nine feet tall and is about fifteen feet in circumference.
It is quite square, with a couple of rough faces and a couple of very flat faces. The faces point quite neatly towards the four cardinal points.
The flat faces show signs of cup marks, but also similar marks where stones and pebbles may have fallen out of the sandstone matrix of the monolith. The two are most clearly distinguished where there is a stone-hole within a cup mark.
A stone hammer was found in the same field during the 1840s.
1/12 The monolith at Drybridge. The yardstick to the left of the picture is about six feet tall.
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4/12 The very square shape of the monolith can be seen here.
5/12 This very flat face and the flat area at the top of the face to the right show signs of cup-marking.
6/12 Cup marks can be seen on the flat area at the top of the monolith.
7/12 Cup marks can be seen here. There are also smaller, sharper dips where stones and pebbles have dropped out of the sandstone matrix.
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9/12 Cup marks can be seen at the base of this face of the monolith.
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Nearby Sites
18km Ballochmyle Carved Cliffs Cup And Ring Carvings
19km Moyne Moor Cist; Cairns; Stone Setting
20km Covenanters Stones Stone Circle
(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)