Archaeology Notes
Event ID 803667
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NR89SW 70 8445 9176
(Location cited as NR 8445 9176). Dunamuck 4. The site is accessed from Dunamuck 5 [NR89SW 71] by crossing the stream and passing through a gate in a modern field wall. The ground levels at this point for some metres, and the crest gently slopes to the right to three domed outcrops, the centre of which is marked with field clearance stones. The carvings lie beneath the surface turf on the first outcrop.
On the south facing edge of a domed outcrop, under turf, the carvings consist of a single cup surrounded by three rings with an integrated single isolated cup cut within the outer ring. Six cups with single rings forming an arc, similar to the carvings at Todd Crags, Northumberland (NY 9720 8913). Other motifs include a single cup and ring with radial grooves aligned to a natural crevice in the surface of the rock, twenty-one cupmarks, one countersunk
This site, together with Dunamuck 6, merit more detailed investigation, possibly by the complete removal of the turf covering. Other cups are noted to the edge of the outcrop, but not recorded in the enclosed drawing. The surface of the rock has a vertical strike and many natural cracks on its surface have been incorporated within the design.
The motifs are recorded using wax rubbing, digital and slide photography.
Information from S Beckensall, B Brown and P Brown, visited May 2000.
NMRS, MS/669/9.
