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Leanach
Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Leanach
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 12737
Site Number NH54SW 13
NGR NH 54714 41787
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12737
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH54SW 13 5471 4179.
NH 547 417. There are at least six cup-marks on an outcrop of rock situated 70 m SW of Leanach farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1978
At NH 5471 4179, on the SE extremity of a rock outcrop, are twelve cup marks.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 6 Feburary 1981
NH 44/54 OS 547418 No. 66 Leanach.
On the face of a rock a few yards south of Leanach Farmhouse there are about half-a-dozen cup marks, and on the south gable of the house there appears to be the fossil of a small snake. The cup marks are recorded.
Coghill et al 1989
Field Visit (January 1978)
Leanach NH 547 417 NH54SW
There are at least six cup-marks on this outcrop of rock situated 70m SW of Leanach farmhouse.
RCAHMS 1979, visited January 1978
Note (12 December 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 12/12/2019
Compiled by: NOSAS
Location Notes: The panel is located about 60m SW of Leanach farmhouse, accessed round the SE end of the farm buildings in a mature and overgrown plantation. It is on the E edge of a prominent overgrown outcrop and about 5m NE of the boundary fence.
Panel Notes: The panel is a squarish block of schist, 1.3m x 1.0m x 0.6m high. It lies against an outcrop of which it appears to be a detached piece. There are 20 cups in total. The top surface slopes 10° to the SE and has 11 cups, the SW facing surface slopes at 45° and has 9 cups.
