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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 725822
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/725822
NX55NW 11 5400 5684.
NX 540 568. Cup and Ring marked Rock, Cairnharrow; At some 800' OD, about 1/2 mile SW of the shepherd's house at Cauldside and some 200yds NE of a modern cairn on the E spur of Cairnharrow, is an angular piece of rock, 5'6" by 2'3". Its level upper surface is sculptured with one cup surrounded by three concentric rings crossed by a radial groove (the whole figure is 15" in diameter) with two smaller single ringed cups and a few simple cups adjacent.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1912; I F MacLeod 1969; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967
NX 5400 5684. A cup and ringed marked rock as previously described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 21 June 1977
