Craggan
Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Craggan
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Craggan 1
Canmore ID 24126
Site Number NN52SE 2
NGR NN 5875 2307
NGR Description NN 5875 2307 and NN c.588 231
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish Balquhidder
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN52SE 2 5875 2307 and NN c.588 231
(Area: NN 588 231) A large, oval boulder having a basin, 13" broad and 6" deep, cut out near its higher, broad end and with a cluster of 15 smaller cups below the basin, was found at Craggen, immediately behind the Free Church Manse, by a contractor singling out boulders for the erection of the new Episcopal Church at Lochearn- head. About 100 yards. to the south of this stone is a dolmen or chamber composed of six large stones, two of which are thrown down. Three of these stones are cup- marked, the one forming the floor or area of the dolmen having fifty cups varying from 3 1/2" to 1" in diameter.
D Haggart 1888.
No trace could be found of the "large boulder with basin". The six large stones mentioned by Haggart were located at NN 5875 2307, on a small, turf-covered rocky mound. One is flat-topped, measures 1.5m x 1.5m x 0.4m high and has at least fifty cup-marks, mostly small, on its exposed surface. Almost touching this stone on the south is a large triangular stone, 0.8m high, with at least eight rather crude hollows on its flat top, the largest being 7" in diameter and 2 1/2" deep. A third stone, approx. 2.0m east of the first, has at least eight small cups hidden beneath encroaching turf.
These cup-marked stones do not form part of a chambered cairn (Information from A S Henshall, NMAS).
Cup-marked boulders surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (W D J) 12 December 1968.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (J R L) 20 March 1979.
Note (1979)
Craggan 1 NN c. 588 231 NN52SE 2
This cup-marked boulder may have been destroyed when it was found during quarrying operations.
RCAHMS 1979
Haggart 1888, 282
Craggan 2
Three large boulders bearing cup-marks.
RCAHMS 1979
Haggart 1888, 282-3