Muir Of Gormack
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Muir Of Gormack
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 28810
Site Number NO14NW 28
NGR NO 1253 4721
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28810
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kinloch
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (8 January 1975)
NO14NW 28 1253 4721.
At NO 1253 4721 protruding from a S-facing slope, is an irregular shaped rock (1.6m x 1.4m x 0.5m thick) with 6 cup marks averaging 5cms in diameter and 1cm deep. The slab is within an ancient field system (NO14NW 6).
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JM) 8 January 1975
Field Visit (October 1986)
Situated on the S fringes of the settlement and field-system NO14NW 6, there is a cup-and-ring marked boulder (1.6m by 1.4m by 0.5m). On its upper surface there are the worn remains of three cups and triple rings, one cup and double rings and five plain cups. The largest of the cupmarks measures 50mm by 15mm.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) October 1986.
RCAHMS 1990
Measured Survey (1987)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut circles etc at Muir of Gormack using an EDM. The resultant data was plotted, redrawn in ink, overlain on an OS background map, and published at a scale of 1:10,000 (RCAHMS 1990, Fig. 149).
