Swordale
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Swordale
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 12884
Site Number NH56NE 3
NGR NH 5747 6563
NGR Description NH 3 c. 5747 6563
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 3 c. 5747 6563
Location formerly entered as NH 574 656.
In the stackyard at Swordale there is a flat stone, four feet long by three broad, one side of which is covered with cup marks and other artificial hollows and channels. It is of sandstone.
ISSFC 1885.
The grieve at Swordale knew nothing of such a stone, nor could it be found in the stackyard centred at NH 5747 6563.
No further information.
Visited by OS (R D L) 5 May 1963.
Note (1979)
Swordale 1 NH 574 656 NH56NE 3
A slab decorated with 'cup marks and other artificial hollows and channels was recorded in the stackyard at Swordale in 1880, but it is now lost.
RCAHMS 1979
(Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, i, 1875-80, 367, 369.)
