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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39929
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
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.
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.