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Ossian's Stone

The Sma' Glen, Perthshire

The giant boulder over the grave of a legendary poet.

In the Sma' Glen lies a huge boulder said to mark the grave of Ossian, the legendary poet son of Fingal. In the 1730s soldiers building General Wade's military road moved the stone and found a stone burial box with bones beneath.

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When
Legend, moved 1730s
Where
56.4930, -3.7300
Group
Hill figures & giants

Visiting

Beside the A822 north of Crieff.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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