Little Urchany
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Little Urchany
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Little Urchany Wester / Wester Urchany
Canmore ID 15019
Site Number NH84NE 8
NGR NH 868 487
NGR Description NH c.868 487
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Cawdor
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH84NE 8 869 487.
Part of a cup-marked stone was found about 1882 in the wall of a farm-building at Little Urchany Wester (? Area NH 869 487). The building, which had been built about 1812, had lately fallen.
The cup-marked fragment is of yellow sandstone and has been split and has part of its corner removed. It measures 2' 1" by 8 1/2" broad at one end and 7 1/2" at the other.
It bears 12 complete cups, 2" to 3 1/2" wide and from 1 3/8" to 1/2" deep, and two or three incomplete.
It was taken to Cawdor Castle (NH 8471 4987) for preservation.
W Jolly 1882.
According to local information, stones from the Clava-type ring-cairn (NH84NE 1) were used in the construction of farm-buildings at Wester Little Urchany. The cup-marked stone is still preserved at Cawdor Castle.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 January 1971.
Field Visit (May 1978)
This stone could originally have come from either of the ring cairns NH84NE 1 or 2. It is still at Cawdor Castle.
RCAHMS 1978, visited May 1978.
