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Poltalloch
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Site Name Poltalloch
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 39497
Site Number NR89NW 53
NGR NR 8152 9682
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmartin
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR89NW 53 8157 9682
See also NR89NW 52.
(NR 814 968) Cup and ring marked rock 250 yards N(?S) of Poltalloch: see NR89NW 52.
Information from DoE, 1967.
This rock could not be located.
Visited by OS (JP) 1 May 1973
Turf-covered.
Information from RCAHMS (JBS), 5 December 1985.
Field Visit (May 1983)
This impressive cup-and-ring marked rock outcrop is situated in woodland 160m SW of the ruins of Poltalloch House (NR89NW 81.00). The rock surface dips steeply to the E and is criss-crossed by deep fractures, which, in places, have led to the shearing-off of some of the marks. The decoration comprises: seven cups with four rings (one of which has widely spaced rings, giving it an unusually broad diameter); nine cups with three rings; nine cups with two rings; thirteen with single rings; and at least eighty plain cupmarks. To the NNW of the largest of the four-ringed cups there are two star-shaped marks, one of which is surrounded by a ring.
(For the significance of these marks, see the Introduction to Argyll volume 6, RCAHMS 1988).
RCAHMS 1988, visited May 1983.
