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Auchalick Wood 1

Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)

Site Name Auchalick Wood 1

Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Ardmarnoch 3

Canmore ID 39929

Site Number NR97SW 6

NGR NR 9198 7401

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NR97SW 6 9198 7401

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (IA) 7 November 1972 and (BS) 7 October 1976.

Excavation of a 4m by 8m area around the carved rock revealed no artificial features. A metal detector survey and phosphate survey of a larger area (25m by 20m) was similarly negative.

Sponsors: Glasgow Archaeological Society, Hunterian Museum.

N Curtis and A Jaffray 1991.

Activities

Field Visit (June 1986)

Situated on the edge of a slight terrace 50m S of fort NR97SW 16, there is a boulder bearing five cups with two rings, six cups with single rings, and some fifty-nine plain cupmarks. Several of the ringed cups have gutters, and some of the plain cups are linked by channels (Morris 1977, 48).

RCAHMS 1988, visited June 1986.

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