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Swordale
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Swordale
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Mountgerald
Canmore ID 12875
Site Number NH56NE 12
NGR NH
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12875
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltearn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH56NE 12 unlocated
In September, 1864, Mr. Joass, Dingwall, walked across from Dingwall to Swordale by way of Mountgerald (NH 57 61) and on a little patch of uncultivated land he stumbled upon a specimen of a cup and ring-marked stone. He then made a search and discovered ten speci- mens. Since then he found four or five others, all 'with- in a radius of ten acres in extent', most of them lying close together. They bear a multiplicity of markings, varying from the smallest cup to the most complicated figures.
ISSFC 1885.
No further information could be gained from enquiries made at Swordale. The stones described could be anywhere within an area of several square kilometres, much of which has since been afforested.
Visited by OS (R D L) 4 May 1963.
