What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Tarfside as Cross Incised Stone (early Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Tarfside is associated with a local tradition of healing and pilgrimage, linked to an early medieval cross incised stone. The site may have been a place of Christian worship and ritual, reflecting the spread of Christianity in rural Scotland during the early medieval period.
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Places near here
TarfsideMilestone (19th Century) · 682 yd
Hill of RowanNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 960 yd
Tarfside War MemorialMemorial · 1050 yd
BurnfootCairn (prehistoric) · 1089 yd
Maule MonumentMemorial · 1214 yd
Tarfside, Maule Memorial ChurchChurch (mid 19th Century) (1857) · 1398 yd
Gracie's LinnWaterfall · 1484 yd
Hill of MiltonCairn (prehistoric), Human Remains (prehistoric), Food Vessel (pottery)(bronze Age) · 1525 yd
Cairn RobieMountain / peak · 1.1 mi
Glenesk Folk MuseumMuseum · 1.6 mi
Cowie HillMountain / peak · 1.6 mi
Invermark CastleTower House (16th Century) · 2.6 mi