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Field Visit

Date May 1983

Event ID 1102335

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102335

This impressive cup-and-ring marked rock outcrop is situated in woodland 160m SW of the ruins of Poltalloch House (NR89NW 81.00). The rock surface dips steeply to the E and is criss-crossed by deep fractures, which, in places, have led to the shearing-off of some of the marks. The decoration comprises: seven cups with four rings (one of which has widely spaced rings, giving it an unusually broad diameter); nine cups with three rings; nine cups with two rings; thirteen with single rings; and at least eighty plain cupmarks. To the NNW of the largest of the four-ringed cups there are two star-shaped marks, one of which is surrounded by a ring.

(For the significance of these marks, see the Introduction to Argyll volume 6, RCAHMS 1988).

RCAHMS 1988, visited May 1983.

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