3rd

This morning I was going to do a smart arsed blip connected to yesterdays upload..........something along the lines of starting every day afresh.

This idea was reinforced after stopping off to see my mate with liver cancer (nobody should get to close to me I think) and finding out that he is stable and his last scan has shown no speading of the tumor.

THANK GOD ...............some good news.

However - I have gone with my continuing occational series of local history.

The is the Caiystone (or the Caiystane as it is spelt for the local street names ..... stane being the Scots word for stone).

In Caiystane View stands the ancient stone known as the Caiy Stane, which is under the care of the National Trust for Scotland. The stone is just over nine feet high and faces almost due east and west. There is a curved row of six ancient cup marks on the eastern face.

There is a plaque beside the stone which relates the history:

Standing at over nine feet high on a summit, originally with wide views this broad slab of red sandstone includes a line of six, probably prehistoric, cup marks on its reverse face.



The stone may have been erected as early as the Neolithic period, possibly before 3000 BC, to denote a ritual or burial place. Records of cairs, cists and urns found in the immediate vicinity show that the hilltop continued to be used for burial in the Bronze Age.



Discovery of these remains led to the supposition that Caiyside Hill was the site of a battle, variously suggested to have involved invading Romans, Danes (Vikings); or Cromwellians. The Caiy Stane, also known as the Kel Stane, the Cat Stane or the Camus Stane, was thought to have been a battle memorial stone