Kilmaronag
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kilmaronag
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Black Lochs
Canmore ID 23266
Site Number NM93SW 1
NGR NM 9365 3369
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Ardchattan And Muckairn (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM93SW 1 9365 3369
(NM 9365 3369) Cup marked Stone (NR).
An isolated granite boulder is situated in rough grazing about 800 metres south of Kilmaronag and 18 metres SE of the track leading to Black Lochs. It measures 1.4 by 1.1 metres and stands 0.5 metres in height. On its sloping, upper surface are seven small cups, 25 to 40mm in diameter and up to 10mm in depth. Five of them are evenly disposed, running in a straight line down the centre of the stone. The other two are parallel to and almost opposite to the top-most pair of the line of five.
R W B Morris 1969; RCAHMS 1975,
As described.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 9 October 1969.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Field Visit (May 1970)
NM 936 337. An isolated granite boulder is situated in rough grazing about 800m S of Kilmaronag and 18m SE of the track leading to Black Lochs. Measuring 1.4m by 1.1m and stands 0.5m high, it bears on its sloping, upper surface seven small cups, 25mm to 40mm in diameter and up to 10mm in depth. Five of them are evenly disposed in a straight line down the centre of the stone. The other two are parallel to, and almost opposite to the top-most pair of the line of five.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1970.
