Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694010

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR34NW 3 3013 4724

Approximately NR 300 472. An irregularly shaped boulder, measuring 6 1/2ft by 4 1/2ft and 1 1/2ft high, is sculptured with over 8 cup marks up to 3 1/2ins diameter, 1 1/4ins deep. It is situated about 100yds south east of chapel NR24NE 1 and NR24NE 35 yds north east of the northernmost garden wall at Tockmal.

R W B Morris 1969; W Lamont 1959.

NR 3013 4725 The upper smooth surface of an earthfast boulder measuring 2.4m by 1.9m, bears at least 14 cup marks. They range from 3.5cms to 9.5cms in diameter and 1.0cm to 4cm in depth, and form a random distribution. Two touching cups have a pecked arc around them.

Surveyed at 1:10000.

Visited by OS (JRL) 8 June 1978.