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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648033

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/648033

NB12SE 11 167 343

On the shore 40m and 50m NNW of Dun Barraglom (NB13SE 5), on sloping rock faces just below high water mark, are two groups of cupmarks. The S group has 37 cups up to 9cm diameter and 2cm deep. The N group has 35 cups up to 9.5cm diameter and 2.5cm deep, also a shallow cupped feature closely resembling a Pictish mirror symbol 27cm long.

M R Ponting and G R Curtis 1987.

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