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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 726606

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/726606

NX64SE 8 687 447.

The following markings were noted by Coles on W-sloping rock outcrops some 300 yds (270m) SE of Balmae House: (a) a cup-and-five-complete rings 60cm in diameter, and also four concentric rings with no cup; and (b), immediately below 'a', five concentric rings 46cm in diameter, no cup. These marks were not found by RCAHMS, who visited the area in 1911, nor by Bailey in 1965. (See Coles, fig. 6 for sketch, followed by Morris.)

F R Coles 1895a; RCAHMS 1914; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967;

R W B Morris 1979.

Not located.

Visited by OS (DWR) 14 April 1971.

The cup-and-ring marks illustrated by Coles (1895, fig.6) could not be found on the date of visit.

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 26 November 2002

FR Coles 1895a

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