Archaeology Notes

Event ID 724446

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX55SW 39 5185 5496.

NX517 550. Cup and ring marked rock, Cairnholy. On moor ten yards north of wall, two hundred yards east of sheepfank, on a small rock in a recent ditch, is carved a clear cup and a rather faint ring.

R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967

NX5185 5496. This poor example of a cup and ring mark is on a rock outcrop which was exposed by a shallow drainage ditch.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (TRG) 10 June 1977

Van Hoek did not locate this stone, but Naddair excavated more of its surface, and his illustration shows three cups with one ring each and five plain cups.

M A M van Hoek 1995, K Naddair 1995.