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Tangymoil

Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Tangymoil

Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Tighnamoile

Canmore ID 38393

Site Number NR62NE 4

NGR NR 6682 2857

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Killean And Kilchenzie
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR62NE 4 6682 2857.

(NR 6682 2857) (information from D Colville, 1953). A cup-marked boulder lies 595m east of Tighnamoile at a height of 150m OD, immediately north of the Allt a'Ghoirtein in a small triangle formed by the junction of the Killarow-Tighnamoile march fence with another fence running northwards from it. The boulder measures 1.6m by 1.2m and 0.3m high and bears 14 cups on its rough upper surface.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1960

No change to RCAHMS report.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (JM) 3 November 1977

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