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Wester Litigan
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Wester Litigan
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 24961
Site Number NN74NE 8
NGR NN 7636 4962
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24961
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fortingall
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN74NE 8 7636 4962.
There are ten cup-marks on a large harp-shaped boulder 8 or 9ft long by 6 or 7ft wide and 4ft high, on the hillside 500 yds above Wester Litigan and about the same distance south-west from Garth Castle. (Area NN 762 500) The stone had been damaged but it was proposed to restore it.
J M Gow 1886
A cup-marked boulder at NN 7636 4962. The boulder has split even more than Gow's sketch shows along its SE side, and a portion containing five of the cups has disappeared.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JM) 21 November 1974.
