Burn Of Forgue
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Burn Of Forgue
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 18367
Site Number NJ64SW 3
NGR NJ 61000 44900
NGR Description NJ c. 610 449
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18367
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Forgue
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ64SW 3 c. 610 449.
A cup-marked stone, being a boulder of greyish gneissose rock, 20" by 12", having nine cups on one side, six of which have encircling rings, found in a burn on the Glebe at Forgue, was donated to the National Museum of Antiquites of Scotland (NMAS) in 1895 by the Rev J Brebner. (Accession no: IA 24)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1896.
The burn referred to is undoubtedly the Burn of Forgue, at the edge of the glebeland at NJ 610 449. Otherwise no further information.
Visited by OS (AA) 5 March 1973.
