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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 728637
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728637
NX74SW 50 70384 45744
NX 7038 4575. Situated on an outcrop at the end of a slight ridge, is a NW facing rock 2.8 x 2.5 x 0.7m high bearing a cup-and single-ring.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 8 April 1971
NX 7039 4573. Located during a survey of cup and ring-marked rocks in 1990. No details given. (May possibly refer to one of the sites noted by Coles (NX74NW 33, NX74NW 35, NX74NW 36 ) but not located since).
(Description previously noted under NX74NW 90)
M van Hoek 1990.
This whale-backed rock bears a cup-and-ring on its upper surface. The cup measures 25mm in diameter by 5mm in depth and the ring is 70mm in diameter.
(KTA02 278)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC) 25 November 2002
