
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Taxing Stone, Little Laight Hill as Standing Stone (prehistoric). 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.
Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the Taxing Stone may have functioned as a territorial marker, ceremonial site, or waystone. Local folklore sometimes associates such stones with trials or tests, though specific traditions connected to this example are not recorded.
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Places near here
Little Laight HillAnti Aircraft Battery (20th Century) · 53 yd
Laight MoorGeneral View (period Unassigned) · 261 yd
Little LaightCairnfield (period Unassigned) · 385 yd
Old Park of the GleickCairn(s) (period Unassigned)(possible) · 634 yd
Mary Stewart: Marchburn, Loch Ryan, Firth of ClydeSchooner (19th Century) · 739 yd
Bee: Finnarts Bay, Loch Ryan, Firth of ClydeSloop (19th Century) · 1.3 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.3 mi
PortbegBay · 1.8 mi
Loch RyanBay · 1.9 mi
Ace of Clubs PlantationWood · 1.9 mi
Horse Park PlantationWood · 2.1 mi
Brockloch FellMountain / peak · 2.3 miOther information
Photo: M Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0