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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 712174
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/712174
NT16NW 7 centred 1290 6967.
(Centred NT 1290 6967) Cup & Ring marked Rocks (NR) (7 shown)
OS 25" map (1969)
Several cup-and-ring markings have been found on outcropping rock surface on the highest point of Tormain Hill. They occur on eight outcrops in one area measuring c.15 yds by 7yds.
The markings include plain cups, cups with rings, concentric circles and gutters. (Outcrops A, C, D and E on plan; outcrop B, 4' x 2'3" bears a single cup. Outcrops F and G also have single cup-marks, and there are two cups on H.
R W Feachem 1963; RCAHMS 1929, visited 1927; J R Allen 1882; R W B Morris 1969
These rock outcrops are generally as described and illustrated, but "C" could not be found.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JTT) 19 August 1965
An interesting feature is that one of the cups on Stone 'D' has been utilised as a triangulation reference point by the Ordnance Survey in about 1853.
J L Davidson 1979
