Clachadow
Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Clachadow
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 23187
Site Number NM92NW 14
NGR NM 94697 27300
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23187
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM92NW 14 9468 2730.
NM 946 273. On a large, rounded, granite boulder, measuring 1.3 by 0.75 metres and 0.75 metres high, and which is incorporated in the wall running SW from Clachadow farmhouse to a stone sheepfold, there are at least three cup marks. Near the SW end of the NW face of the stone there is one large cup, 85mm in diameter and 30mm deep, and near the NE end there are two others, 40mm and 30mm in diameter and 20mm and 10mm in depth respectively. The upper surface bears two hollows, one circular and one oval, which are probably of natural origin.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1970.
As described. The stone was located in the wall at NM 9468 2730.
Visited by OS (J P) 2 December 1969.
Note (16 February 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 16/02/2019
Compiled by: ScRAP
Location Notes: The panel forms part of a ruined stone dyke running NE-SW, on a flat stream bank about 10m from the burn near the base of a NW facing hillslope about 50m SW of Clachadow Farm. About 15m to the E are the remnants of a byre-dwelling with 3 compartments, which may have been reused as a sheep enclosure as its E-most compartment is more intact than the rest of the structure. The NW wall of the structure forms part of the stone dyke. Within 100m of the panel are several other ruinous stone buildings that denote the remains of a settlement. It is likely that the panel was moved to its present position when the dyke was built, possibly during the Improvement period.
Panel Notes: This is a rounded granite boulder narrowing slightly at its W end. There are possible cupmarks on the upper and NNE faces, suggesting that the stone may originally have been upright, possibly a standing stone. On what is now the upper surface at the NE end of the boulder there is 1 cupmark with a narrow, branched natural fissure running from it to the edge of the boulder, and two features that are possible cupmarks, 1 wide (8cm diameter) and shallow and 1 slightly assymetric. There are also 2 natural ovoid depressions on the W end of the upper surface. On what is now the vertical NNE face of the panel there are 2 small possible cupmarks at the SW end, and a large feature at the E end that is probably natural. On the SSW vertical face of the panel there is a large natural protuberance.
