Carrickstone is an area of

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. It is on the north of the M80 and west of

Cumbernauld Town Centre The Centre Cumbernauld (formerly Cumbernauld town centre) is the commercial centre of the new town of Cumbernauld, Scotland. It was designed in the 1950s—as what became known as a megastructure—to be a town centre consisting of "one huge mul ...

. The area it now occupies used to be covered by Carrickstone farm with the 25 inch Ordnance Survey map showing it between an ancient "standing stone" and The Village.

Toponymy

The historical etymology of Carrickstone's name is uncertain although it is now undoubtedly tied to the Roman altar.

History

Carrickstone is named after the only Roman altar still in the open air in Scotland. John Watson in the New Statistical Account of Scotland described the stone long before the modern settlement took shape. The stone has also been linked with

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, being the place where he reportedly set up his standard on his way to

Bannockburn Bannockburn () is an area immediately south of the centre of Stirling in Scotland. It is part of the City of Stirling. It is named after the Bannock Burn, a stream running through the town before flowing into the River Forth. History Land in ...

. There is a some evidence that coffins were laid on top of the stone on their way to the cemetery in

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and that the stone has been somewhat worn away. Several old documents show Carrickstone including maps by Charles Ross, and

William Roy Major-General William Roy (4 May 17261 July 1790) was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Gr ...

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