Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675101

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM70SE 4 7747 0273.

At NM 7747 0273 is a generally smooth rock outcrop of rock, measuring c. 5.0m square, on which are inscribed 16 cup-and-ring marks, and 14 cups. Of the cup-and-ring marks, one has 4 rings, 4 have 2 rings, and 11 have 1 ring.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; M Campbell 1955; Information from manuscript from R W B Morris

Visited by OS (RD) 13 October 1971.

Further excavations have revealed in all 15 cups-and- rings with up to 5 concentric rings, and at least 60 cups.

M Campbell 1975; R W B Morris 1977