Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664632

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH84NE 8 869 487.

Part of a cup-marked stone was found about 1882 in the wall of a farm-building at Little Urchany Wester (? Area NH 869 487). The building, which had been built about 1812, had lately fallen.

The cup-marked fragment is of yellow sandstone and has been split and has part of its corner removed. It measures 2' 1" by 8 1/2" broad at one end and 7 1/2" at the other.

It bears 12 complete cups, 2" to 3 1/2" wide and from 1 3/8" to 1/2" deep, and two or three incomplete.

It was taken to Cawdor Castle (NH 8471 4987) for preservation.

W Jolly 1882.

According to local information, stones from the Clava-type ring-cairn (NH84NE 1) were used in the construction of farm-buildings at Wester Little Urchany. The cup-marked stone is still preserved at Cawdor Castle.

Visited by OS (NKB) 21 January 1971.