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Ardifuir 9

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Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)

Site Name Ardifuir 9

Classification Cup Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)

Canmore ID 39136

Site Number NR79NE 16

NGR NR 78952 97000

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital photograph of panel before cleaning, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute
Digital photograph of panel before cleaning, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to north, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to south, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to west, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeArdifuir 9, NR79NE 16, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoDigital photograph of close ups of motifs, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of perpendicular to carved surface(s), Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeCup-marked stone (Ardifuir 1)Ardifuir 9, NR79NE 16, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoDigital photograph of panel to east, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to north, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeArdifuir 9, NR79NE 16, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoDigital photograph of close ups of motifs, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel in context without scale, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to east, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to south, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeScanned image of rock art location sketch, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeScanned image of rock art location sketch, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 1-9 and 12, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeScanned image of rock art panel sketch, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeCup-marked stone (Ardifuir 1)Digital photograph of panel in context with scale, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and ButeDigital photograph of panel to west, Scotland's Rock Art Project, Ardifuir 9, Kilmartin, Argyll and Bute

Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilmartin
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR79NE 16 7894 9700

A boulder lying in the NW angle of the pasture field immediately N of Ardifuir dun (NR79NE 2) bears two single cupmarks (45mm by 20mm and 45mm by 15mm respectively).

Visited by RCAMS May 1980.

M Campbell 1962; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; RCAHMS 1988

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (JP) 9 May 1973.

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Field Visit (May 1980)

RCAHMS County Inventory; Argyll Volume 6 (Mid-Argyll and Cowal, Prehistoric and Early Historic Monuments)

A boulder lying in the NW angle of the pasture field immediately N of Ardifuir dun bears two single cupmarks (45mm by 20mm and 45mm by 15mm respectively).

RCAHMS 1988, visited May 1980

Further Details

Note (29 November 2019)

Scotland’s Rock Art Project

Date Fieldwork Started: 29/11/2019

Compiled by: Kilmartin

Location Notes: The panel is situated in a field of rough grazing just S of the entrance gate to the field and about 100m N of Ardifuir farm house. It comprises a small boulder and an outcrop about 1m to the E.

Panel Notes: The panel is a small, square boulder measuring 0.9 x 0.9m and 0.5m max height. This 1 cupmarks on the W (upper) surface which slopes at 5 degrees and 1 probable cup on the N surface, sloping at 50 degrees. The cupmarks measure 45mm width x 20mm depth, and 45mm width x 15mm depth. There is also a possible cup mark 35mm width and 10mm depth.

The adjacent, lower-lying outcrop also features 1 certain cup on the W side of the S facing surface and 2 possible cups that have not previously been noted. The outcrop measures 1.5 x 1.5m and 0.2m max height, with part of the panel flush with the ground. The carved surface has a S aspect with 1 cup on the W side measuring 45mm width x 20mm depth. The cup mark was well hidden by turf. There are also 1 possible cup just below this and 1 possible cup to the E side the outcrop, both measuring 45mm width x 5mm depth.

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