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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685368

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/685368

NO20NW 26 2312 0615.

NO 231 061. Two cup-marked boulders of yellow sandstone, fallen from a field dyke.

Stone 'A': Measures 0.64 by 0.54 by 0.22 metres, and has two cup-and rings, two cups, and one ring pecked on one face. Details were reported to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), Edinburgh, by Messrs W Allerton and G P Bennett.

Stone 'B': Measures 0.33 by 0.22 by 0.17 metres and has a cup-and-ring mark, with gutter, pecked on one face, whilst on the opposite face is a central cup surrounded by five smaller cups.

Both stones are now in Falkland Palace.

J Close-Brooks TS, undated (received November 1976).

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