Battle Law
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Battle Law
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 31771
Site Number NO32SE 38
NGR NO 3618 2363
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Balmerino
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO32SE 38 3618 2363.
NO 3618 2363. A cup and ring marked boulder was found in 1976, when a road gate was being replaced, and is now preserved at NO 3716 2462, west of Naughton House. The west gatepost was found to be embedded in a flattish slab of metamorphic rock, 1.10m by 0.80m by 0.52m maximum thickness. One face is flat, with nine definite and two possible cups; the other is covered by a complex of at least eighty cups, cup-and-ring, dumb-bells and channels. It is possible that this stone had formed part of a cist from the cemetery on Battle Law (NO32SE 7), many slabs from which are lying beside the gate.
Information from R W B Morris letter and map, 7 June 1976; J Kenworthy and E Proudfoot 1976.
