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Standing Stone continued "There is not far from the place where a battel was struck, in a
BanK to the South of Doctan in Kinglassie Parish, a pillar of hewn
Stone set in a pedestal; it is about five or six foot high, one foot thick and two
broad: the broad faces of it are to the East and the West, and the figures are upon the side of it towards the East.
The upmost part of it seems to have been for a beasts head prominent; below it is the figure of a man on
Horse back, with like a scrol above him; tis but a small figure; The North, South, and West sides have
upon them only some ornamental Carving; Its much defaced by the weather, and torn in the top; no
vestige of any letter could be discerned upon it. This is certainly Danish, and seems to have been
set up when some chief Commander was killed, whither at this battel or another which
hapened afterwards near Kinghorn, is uncertain. Sibbald Fife & Kinross page 34.