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Loch Dirigadale

Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Loch Dirigadale

Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 38878

Site Number NR74NW 11

NGR NR 7253 4572

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NR74NW 11 7253 4572.

(NR 7252 4572) A large cup-marked boulder is situated at a height of 200m OD on a small heathery knoll that rises slightly above the general level of the marshy ground 230m ESE of Loch Dirigadale. Measuring 2.3m by 1.5m and 0.6m high, it bears at least sixty-five cups of normal size and more than two dozen other very small shallow cups.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1961.

This cup-marked boulder is as described by RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS (J B) 25 January 1977.

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