Duncroisk River Bank
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Duncroisk River Bank
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Duncroisk 5
Canmore ID 24181
Site Number NN53NW 5
NGR NN 53446 35671
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24181
- Council Stirling
- Parish Killin
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN53NW 5 5345 3568.
A loose slab of stone, with eighteen cup marks, five ringed, was shown to the author, used as a foundation stone for a stretching post at the S end of the easternmost fence of Duncroisk farm. It is near the edge of the river buried in sand and turf.
C G Cash 1912
NN 5345 3568. A flat, half-buried slab with a metal fence post in its middle and bearing fourteen cup marks, four of which are ringed (R W B Morris TS, 1975).
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 9 September 1975
Note (1979)
Duncroisk 5 NN 534 356 NN53NW 5
This stone, which has been used for the foundation of a fence post, bears cup-marks and cup-and-ring marks.
RCAHMS 1979
Cash 1912, 273-4.
Note (16 May 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 16/05/2019
Compiled by: Killin
Location Notes: The panel is sited in rough grazing at the top of the N bank of the River Lochay, at the S edge of the flat valley floor, which consists of improved pasture. It lies immediately outside (S of) a modern deer fence, its N edge extending slightly under the fence. To the SSW the ground slopes steeply to the river approximately 5m away. The field was not accessed due to the presence of sheep and lambs. Although there is nothing to indicate that the panel has been moved, it has a 40mm square iron fence post inserted into it (0.6m S of the present fence line) and it is possible that its present location dates to the construction of the earlier fence.
The view to the N is across the valley floor to the mountains on the N side of Glen Lochay; to the W the view upriver is obscured by trees along the river bank; to the S, across the river are low wooded hills, and to the E there is a partial view down the wooded valley. Other rock art panels are widely distributed along the valley sides and floor of Glen Lochay, but there are none recorded (nor any other archaeological sites) within 200m of the panel, which lies approximately 300m SE of the outcrop carrying Duncroisk Lower panels 1-9, which is visible from this panel.
Panel Notes: The panel is an irregular shaped slab, 0.9m E-W x 1m N-S and 0.2m high at the SW. It has a near vertical flat face to the SW, and near vertical sides to the S. The other sides are steep to the W and moderately steep to the NE. The N edge lies below the fence line and was not fully exposed. It has a slightly domed surface, being near flat at the W and sloping up to 30 degrees on the NE side. It consists of a hard, medium grained Schist, with faint evidence of bedding planes, a few cracks and slightly rough surface. The N side of the panel is covered by turf on river silt, but the S edge is exposed. There is a 40mm square iron fence post inserted into it near its centre. The decoration includes 25 plain cupmarks, 10 of which are small and shallow (c.20mm diameter and no more than 5mm deep) which are clustered along the N edge of the panel; there may be others where the panel extends under the fence). The other 15 plain cupmarks were all significantly larger: 30-70mm in diameter and up to 30mm deep. Most of these are on the E half of the panel, but the largest lies close to the W corner. Four other cup marks, running in a NNW-SSE line close to the NE edge, have complete or partial rings. The northern two have radial lines pointing roughly westwards. In the northern one the ring (140mm diameter) appears to cut cross the radial line; while in the adjacent one the ring stops short of the radial line on its N side. The next one has a complete ring, while most southerly has only an arc on the W side; this has a slightly bulbous N end. There is a E-W groove running towards the SE corner.
