The Boyd stone (Boydstone road)near pollok

[activator1688]

Does any one have any pictures of the Boyd stone that stood on the Boydstone rd near the old Cowglen Hospital?
It was dated 1667 and and said to have been erected as a memorial to A farmer Thomas Boyd put to death in Paisley for being a covenanter
does Any one have any thing on this?

[activator1688]

found this
online
Boydstone Road, Eastwood, Glasgow, Renfrewshire
Posted by megalithix on March 17, 2010

Standing Stone (destroyed): OS Grid Reference – NS 540 607


Archaeology & History

There is very little known of this once proud standing stone, said by one writer to have been about 12 feet long: six-feet of it in the ground and the other six-feet above ground. A decent monolith by anyone’s standard! But some dickheads forty years or more ago thought it a good idea to destroy the site, or as it was diplomatically put, “was removed in advance of road widening.” Vandalism no less – though it’s demise was recorded by the Department of the Environment “on behalf of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments.” (DES, 1973)

A local journalist called Andrew McCallum described the site in his unpublished manuscript on the history of the parish of Mansewood, telling it to be near Cowglen:

“near Boydstone Road, midway between Kennishead and Barrhead Road. 6 feet above the ground, and at least as many below. Age and purpose are unknown.”

Some thirty years later, Miss Adamson (1973) told us that,

“The straight-sided block had its base set on yellow sandstone. Immediately above the bedrock small stones and earth had been packed against the W and N faces of the standing stone. On top of the packing were two boulders set at right angles to wedge the sides of the stone. No burials or cremations were found.”

[activator1688]

Boyd =Usage: Scottish
Derived from the word buidhe which means "fair" or "blond".

So Boyd means "fair or blond" and we know the stone was based on sand stone?

Could this be the easy answer to the Boyd stone? Just a light coloured stone, Could there be any link to this ancient stone and the Tumulus's in pollok park ?
Could it be liked to Neilston (neilstone) in any way.
My mother lived on the Boydstone road on the farm just up from its placement and can remember a date carved on it but could not recall what this was. If 1667 or such was carved it was for some reason we will probably never know.

[purplepantman]

I was bored last night so spent a bit of time looking at the National Library and Old Maps sites to
see if there was anything marked on any old OS maps for the area but they show nothing in the
way of "Standing Stones" etc.

An exhaustive amount of "Googling" also reveals nothing.

Perhaps it's just a bit of local folklore - like the Wallace Stone of Riggend which was
mentioned on here a while back...

viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9017

Unlike the Boyd Stone, the Riggend Wallace Stone is actually still there though.
You have a believable story and no stone but at Riggend it's quite the exact opposite.

Good luck and let us know if you find anything.

[activator1688]

Oh it was there all right, here are some links on the subject, Great shame if it has been broken up just to widen a road after standing there for so long
http://priesthill.eveningtimes.co.uk/area/priesthill--nitshill.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.leiser/mansewood/eastwoodbook.htm
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=44370
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/44370/details/glasgow+kennishead/
http://priesthill.eveningtimes.co.uk/area/priesthill--nitshill.html
http://megalithix.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/boydstone-road-eastwood

[purplepantman]

Oh it was there all right

Indeed! Quite a mystery this.

Sounds like the kind of thing that would end up in The Hunterian Museum but what
would have been to your stone's disadvantage I think would have been it's sheer size.
Much easier for them to just make it disappear than to find a place for it.
Probably nobody at the time was much bothered what happened to it.
If they were bothered then we'd readily know where it was.