Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660698

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH54SE 10 552 436.

(Area NH 552 436) There is a cup-marked stone in the rockery at Moniack Castle, It stands at the end of the rockery next to the entrance gate, and is an erect block of hard grey gneiss, 2' x2' with at least 19 well formed cups, the largest being 5" across. It is on loan to Miss Campbell of Moniack Castle, and came from an old dike, which is the march between the farm of Mr. Yule of Maryburgh, near Dingwall,and Bakerhill of Brahan (Information from Seaforth to Rev Dr. Joass, Golspie: June 1880)

W Jolly 1882

No trace of this stone could be found.

Visited by OS (R D) 21 December 1964