Laggangarn Standing Stones **

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Description:

In a conifer plantation stand two prehistoric stones, each an upright slab measuring 1.88m and 1.58m tall, set about a meter apart. On their west faces are carved Latin crosses, each with four small intersecting crosses within its angles. Local lore claims the site once held as many as fourteen stones, with some later taken for farm use at Pultadie and Kilgallioch, and three repurposed at Laggangarn as door lintels. Fourteen meters east, a small square pillar is said to mark the grave of a farmer who removed some of them. The larger crosses likely date from the 7th to 9th centuries AD, while the stones themselves may originate from a Neolithic or Bronze Age setting.