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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 676124
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/676124
NN05NE 5 0577 5995.
NN 057 599 On a promontory into Loch Leven, on the east side of North Ballachulish, 70 yards south from the NE mark (Iron ring) on the old jetty, is a cliff-like rock with an end post of an iron fence on its top. On the flat top surface of this rock, which has a 10 slope to the NE, are more than 60 cup-marks, the largest of which measures 14 cms in diameter and 10 cms in depth. The two largest are connected by a channel giving a dumb-bell effect and some of the lesser cups, too, have incised triangles The whole has no noticeable pattern.
Above these, and about 8 yards to the SE on a flat small ledge of rock at the sea edge is another cup, measuring 7 cms in diameter and 2 cms in depth.
On the summit of the rock outcrop is a basin, 17 cms in diameter and 7 cms deep, and a cup 7 cms in diameter and 2 cms deep.
These cup-markings have been known locally for more than 50 years and were reported to RCAHMS in 1972 by the Rev A Fergus of St Bride's Church, Onich.
Information in Ts by R W B Morris, undated; Information from Rev A Fergus, Onich (visited 27 July 1973) to RCAHMS 1972
The 60-odd cup marks noted by Morris are at NN 0577 5995. Some of them are well-formed but others are so slight that it is possible they are due to weathering. The short channel connecting the two largest hollows is a natural fissure, as are other connecting channels, and the two triangles are probably natural also. None of these marks can be said to be fish-bait mortars, and although it is probable that some are genuine Bronze Age cup-marks the number quoted by Morris is open to speculation. The other alleged cup-marks mentioned by Morris (at NN 0583 5992 and NN 0579 5995 respectively) appear to be natural, probably due to weathering.
Visited by OS (J M) 5 September 1974.
