Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695249

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695249

NR74SW 7 7066 4449.

(NR 7066 4449) A cup and ring marked stone lies just under 1.2 km NE of Drumnamucklach, and 90m S of the gorge of the Killean Burn. Measuring 2.4m by 1.5m and 0.6m in height, it lies in open moorland a few metres S of a rough track leading out to the hill from a gate in a stone wall 175m to the NW. Scattered over its level upper surface there are forty-two well-marked cups ranging from 0.025m to 0.076m in diameter and up to 0.013 m in depth. Five of the cups have a single surrounding ring (the largest measuring 0.25m in diameter) and in two instances a radial groove leads from the cup to the ring but not beyond. On the S portion of the stone two ringed cups are linked by connecting grooves, one of which incorporates two cups. Roughly in the centre of the stone a pair of cups are joined together by a thin channel to form an elongated dumb-bell figure.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1961; R W B Morris 1977.

No change to above report.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (J M) 8 February 1978.