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Gallow Hill 1
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Gallow Hill 1
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 273065
Site Number NO34SE 46
NGR NO 39585 40668
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/273065
- Council Angus
- Parish Tealing
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District City Of Dundee
- Former County Angus
Cup-and-ring-marked stones
NO 39589 40668 On edge of quarry by the road, sandstone rock, 1 x 0.7m; 16 cups from 55 x 25mm to 30 x 10mm. Two
cups have triple rings and abut; one cup with a triple ring abuts an oculus with two rings.
NO 39051 40334 Flat boulder, 0.7 x 0.7m; 16 cups from 50 x 18mm to 35 x 10mm. Two rings. Part of an embankment aligned N-S.
G Currie 2004
Note (24 June 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 24/06/2019
Compiled by: ScRAP Team
Location Notes: The panel is located approximately 180m SE of a television station signal mast on Ironside hill in the Sidlaw hill range. It is approximately 80m to the E of a private road in an area of abandoned quarrying activity on a SE facing slope overlooking open farmland. The site is overlooked by higher ground to the N and W. There are cattle and sheep in open field around the quarry area. Electricity cables run NE-SW between the quarry and the road.
Panel Notes: The panel is an irregular shaped boulder measuring 1.1 x 08m and rising to 0.4m at its heightest. It shows shows signs of having been quarried and is not in its original location. It has fairly extensive lichen cover.
The panel has a series of complex, interconnecting motifs on its surface. There is cup-and-three rings, the second and third ring of which each runs through two further individual cupmarks. Beside this motif there is a further cup-and-three rings. The inside and second ring of this motif both meet and are truncated by the outside ring of the first motif. The outside ring is partially truncated by the edge of the boulder, but also meets the outside ring of the first motif at one side. On the other side, the ring does not complete a circumference, but turns at an angle towards a third motif lying to its N and them forms a straight groove. This motif comprises a pair of individual cupmarks, together circled by two elliptical rings. The outside of these rings passes through two further individual cupmarks, one of which lies at the end of the groove extending from the ring of the second motif. To the side of the two-cup-and-ring mark is a further motif lying at the panel's N edge. It comprises a cup-and-one-ring with a further partial ring outside this which extends towards the two-cup-and-ring mark and joins its outside ring. This last motif is truncated by the edge of the panel.
In addition to these motifs, there are a further seven individual cupmarks, a group of four of which run in a line from the centre of the panel towards the edge at the E side, in a curve running from one of the cupmarks in the outside ring of the first motif.
