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Stillaig 1
Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Stillaig 1
Classification Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 39830
Site Number NR96NW 13
NGR NR 94280 68344
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR96NW 13 9428 6834.
NR 9428 6836. Two groups of cup markings on outcropping rock 320m S of Stillaig Farm. The first consist of 12 cups in a line whilst the second, (3m to the E) bears about 26 cups.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (I A) 27 October 1972.
Cup marked rocks as described in the field report of 27 October 1972. Surveyed at 1/10,000
Visited by OS (B S) 6 October 1976.
NR 9428 6836 Turf removal revealed greatly increased panel totals as follows: (1a) 11 solo cups, one with partial ring and one with a long runnel; (1b) 59 solo cups on a long panel; (1c) 1 cup enclosed by 1 ring and 13 cups on a continuation of same long ridge; (1d) 1 cup enclosed by 1 ring and 40 solo cups on a triangularish adjacent outcrop.
Sponsor: Keltic Research Society
K Naddair, S Willet and B Bierley 1996
Field Visit (April 1986)
Close to the W side of an improved pasture field there is a low rock-spine, the two ends of which are decorated with markings. On the ENE there are thirty-six cups, two of which may be surrounded by single rings, and on the WSW end there are at least eight plain cupmarks. Immediately to the SE, a lower rock-sheet bears some twenty-nine much-weathered plain cups.
Visited April 1986
RCAHMS 1988
Note (17 June 2021)
Date Fieldwork Started: 17/06/2021
Compiled by: Strachur
Location Notes: The panel is situated approximately 400m S of Stillaig farmhouse in area of wettish rough pasture W of improved grazing ground. It is low lying on gentle slope rising from the valley bottom, and about 100m SE of a fence line. Further to the E rises a hill that is currently topped by a commercial timber plantation. Approximately 200 m to the W is a gorse covered outcrop 150m long lying roughly NW.
Panel Notes: This is a long low-lying panel running NE to SW, measuring about 5m in total across three sections and 0.7m at its widest point, and divided at each end by narrow channels containing grass. The panel is flat and flush with the ground. The middle and longest section bears 13 plain cups, 6 of which form a line, and the most SE section bears 3 plain cups in a triangle formation. .
