Archaeology Notes

Event ID 711758

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT25SW 5 c.200 522.

A ring-marked slab of red sandstone, 2ft 6ins by 1ft 10ins by c.4ins thick, discovered in a bank of gravel (J Y Simpson 1868) (gravel pit (Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1870)) at Lamancha, was presented to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no: IA6) in 1867.

Some other large stones found nearby suggested to Simpson that the site may have been sepulchral but there is no evidence that it formed part of a Bronze Age cist (E McWhite 1946). The stone bears an unusual group of markings, all pecked, including single and double rings and an area of punch-marks. (For full description see RCAHMS 1967)

NMAS 1892; RCAHMS 1967

No further information.

Visited by OS (RD) 6 February 1970