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Lagganmullan

Cup And Ring Marked Rock(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Lagganmullan

Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock(S) (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Lagan Muilleann

Canmore ID 133618

Site Number NX55NE 79

NGR NX 5647 5503

NGR Description Centred NX 5647 5503

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Anwoth
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Stewartry
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Archaeology Notes

NX55NE 79 centred 5647 5503

Lagan Muilleann (8)

NX 5646 5504 1 cup contagiously enclosed by a ring which is in turn contagiously enclosed by another egg-shaped ring; 1 cup which is at the centre of a wide ring depression; 1 cup enclosed by 2 rings; 6 cups each enclosed by 1 ring each; 1 very large cup; 20 solo cups; 3 runnels. On 2 outcrops adjacent to drystone dyke.

Lagan Muilleann (9)

NX 5647 5503 2 cups enclosed by 1 'heart-shaped' ring; 3 cups enclosed by 1 ring, 2 adjoining; 5 solo cups. Situated by same drystone dyke as (8).

Lagan Muilleann (10)

NX 5647 5505 1 cup enclosed by 2 very ovaloid rings, a runnel leads-off from the outermost ring to enclose a cup with similarly shaped tail; an indented-ovaloid runnel encloses 1 cup and 1 ring, plus 1 solo cup; 3 associated cups surrounded by 2 ovaloid rings; 1 cup surrounded by 2 rings; 1 cup enclosed by 1 ring; 3 solo cups. On outcrop some 14 paces from (9) down into field.

Sponsor: The Keltic Research Society.

K Naddair, C MacKenzie and S Willett 1995.

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