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East Lomond Hill
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name East Lomond Hill
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 29888
Site Number NO20NW 26
NGR NO 2312 0615
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/29888
- Council Fife
- Parish Falkland
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO20NW 26 2312 0615.
NO 231 061. Two cup-marked boulders of yellow sandstone, fallen from a field dyke.
Stone 'A': Measures 0.64 by 0.54 by 0.22 metres, and has two cup-and rings, two cups, and one ring pecked on one face. Details were reported to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS), Edinburgh, by Messrs W Allerton and G P Bennett.
Stone 'B': Measures 0.33 by 0.22 by 0.17 metres and has a cup-and-ring mark, with gutter, pecked on one face, whilst on the opposite face is a central cup surrounded by five smaller cups.
Both stones are now in Falkland Palace.
J Close-Brooks TS, undated (received November 1976).
Field Visit (May 2019)
The ‘stone with two cup-marks, grooves and two polished areas’ discovered during the Lomond Hills Survey by M Kenworthy in 1978 (DES 1978, 7; cf. DES 1977, 14-16) was not found.
Visited by HES Survey and Recording (ATW, LB, AM) May 2019
