Archaeology Notes

Event ID 689791

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO44NE 1 470 499.

Cup marked Stone: A slab found at Welton (NO 470 499) (OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., 1923), measuring 3' x 2'7", bears 17 cups, 4 surrounded by a single ring, 3 by a double ring, and 3 by a triple ring. In 6 cases, radial grooves spring from the cup. The slab is now preserved at Dunnichen House.

Part of the stone is said to still remain in the ground at St Peter's Well.

J R Allen 1882.

Dunnichen House has been demolished and rebuilt. The stone's whereabouts is unknown to the owner and an aged employee.

Information contained in letter from R W B Morris to OS, 18 May 1980.