Knockancurin
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Knockancurin
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12880
Site Number NH56NE 17
NGR NH 5820 6522
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltearn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH56NE 17 5820 6522.
At NH 5820 6522, lying at the NE side of a field gate and obviously moved from another position, is a sub-rectangular cup-marked slab measuring 1.4m by 0.6m by 0.2m thick. The flat upper surface bears at least thirty weathered cup-marks 1.5m deep at best. Two additional cup-marks are positioned on the S edge of the stone. Also on the stone's upper surface are two dumb-bell shaped marks measuring approximately 0.20m by 0.08m.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J B) 12 March 1980
