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Leanach
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Leanach
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 14189
Site Number NH74NE 6
NGR NH 7522 4503
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14189
- Council Highland
- Parish Daviot And Dunlichity
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH74NE 6 7522 4503.
(NH 7522 4503) Sculptured Stone (Defaced) (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)
There is a cupmarked stone in the dyke on the left hand of the road leading from Culloden battlefield to the farms of Leanach and Clava, a little above the former.
It is a red sandstone slab with numerous cups and measures 3 1/2feet by 3feet and from 7 1/2 to 15inches thick. It stands erect facing the road, and has evidently been broken on the right side, as seen from the fresh fracture of the stone and from one of the cups being divided.
W Jolly 1882.
No trace of this stone can now be found and local enquiries gained no knowledge of the stone but it was ascertained that the dyke had been rebuilt on several occasions (Information from Mr Munro, Leanach). In Inverness Museum there is a cup-marked stone with 12 cups which conforms generally to the measurement given by Jolly (1882). It is listed in the Museum as being "from Clava" and was presented by Mr Jolly. It is possible that this is the stone in question.
Visited by OS (W D J) 25 April 1962.
Metal Detector Survey (August 2018 - May 2019)
NH 75228 45032–NH 75170 45060 An archaeological metal- detecting survey was undertaken in August 2018 at Plot 2, Leanach, Culloden Moor, near Inverness prior to the construction of a new house. The survey recovered one metal artefact, an unidentified lump of possible slag or iron. The remainder of the metal detected finds were modern detritus and were discarded. A second metal-detecting survey was carried out, in May 2019, across the road from Plot 2 in advance of the installation of SSE services. One metal artefact was recovered, a possible fragment of a hinge or fixing, which is of modern origin.
Archive: NRHE (intended) Funder: Private individual
Lindsey Stirling – AOC Archaeology Group
(Source: DES Vol 22)
