Archaeology Notes

Event ID 726337

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX34SE 24 3619 4470.

NX 3618 4470. Two rocks bearing cup and ring marks, surveyed in 1951. (2 dots shown on OS 6" (1959)).

Information from OS Reviser (AEW) 10 September 1951

Morris describes 2 slabs, in the wood (presumably Drumtroddan Plantation), 5 yds in from its E wall, and 55 yds from the S wall. On the first outcrop, c.12'x 10', there is a cup-and-four-rings, 24" in diameter, and a cup-and-two-rings, 9" in diameter. The other slab, which lies 3 yds SW of the first, is c.1 1/2' square as exposed, and bears a cup-and-three-rings, 13" in diameter.

R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967; R W B Morris 1965

NX 3619 4470. Description correct. Site in process of being taken over by the Department of Environment.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (IA) 26 January 1973