Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649841

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC55SE 2 5619 5271

(NC 5619 5271) Cup-marked Stone (NR)

OS 6" map (1961)

A large, earth-fast boulder 5ft long as far as is exposed and 3ft 10ins broad, bearing on the upper surface 18 cup marks of various depths of which the most distinct, 3ins in diameter and 1in deep, is towards the N. The whole length of the stone is not visible but the markings do not seem to extend to the covered portion.

H Morrison 1883; RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.

A cup-marked rock, as described by the RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (JLD), 22 April 1960

No change to the RCAHMS report.

Visited by OS (JM), 11 October 1978

NC 56206 52697. Cup marked stone surveyed as part of survey in the Lochan Hakel area carried out by students from University of Aberdeen in July 2006.

J Kirby, D Marquardt, H MacFarlane and S Duthie, 21 April 2007

NMRS, MS/2999.