Wester Denoon

This cupmarked bedrock, first reported by George Currie in 2005, bears a maximum of 15 cups, measuring up to 80mm in diameter by 15mm in depth, on a horizontal panel measuring 1.1m from N to S by 0.2m transversely. The panel has been truncated at its N end by a quarry, now disused and partly infilled, which measures approximately 15m from WNW to ESE by 8m and 1.8m in depth on the SSW. Like other quarries in the vicinity, this one was probably opened to provide stone for field walls, one of which passes immediately to the NNE.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, GG) 29 July 2013.

Date Fieldwork Started: 06/05/2021

Compiled by: ELF

Location Notes: The panel is located in heather and grass moorland on the top of a 1.9m high rock outcrop which appears to have been quarried. There are extensive views to the NE up Denoon Glen toward Denoon hill fort 3km to the NE. Kinourney hill fort is situated to the SW. The outcrop is situated immediately to the SE of an 18th Century settlement of which only footings remain buried in turf.

Panel Notes: This is an area of flat outcropping rock 1.5 x 0.5m and 0.2m high. It has 21 cupmarks arranged in two parallel rows. The cup appear fainter to the S end of the panel. The most prominent cup to the N of the panel is 9cm across and has a faint partial ring.