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Whitehill 1
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Whitehill 1
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 44537
Site Number NS57SW 34
NGR NS 51311 73970
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/44537
- Council East Dunbartonshire
- Parish New Kilpatrick (Bearsden And Milngavie)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Bearsden And Milngavie
- Former County Dunbartonshire
NS57SW 34 5130 7398
See also NS57SW 6, NS57SW 7, NS57SW 16, NS57SW 31, NS57SW 32, NS57SW 35, NS57SW 37, NS57SW 38, NS57SW 42, NS57SW 45, NS57SW 48, NS57SW 70.
(NS 513 742) A convex rock outcrop with at least 4 cup- and-rings, 2 cups with at least one ring, and over 40 other cups. They lie on the footpath 200yds N of the cup-and-ring marks at Whitehill and are traffic-worn but still deep.
Information contained in letter from R W B Morris to OS, 14 October 1966
NS 5130 7398. Although worn down, this rock-face bears at least 6 positive cups, 4 of which have single concentric rings. The other cups reported above are small pittings, and appear to be natural.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J L D) 10 November 1966.
Desk Based Assessment (2012)
CFA Archaeology Ltd undertook an assessment of the cultural heritage implications of the proposed route of a replacement overhead line (XF Route) from Neilston, Renfrewshire to Windyhill, East Dunbartonshire.
Although 109 cultural heritage features were identified by the desk-based assessment of the 250m buffer around the proposed route of the replacement XF overhead line, very few of these lie along the route of the line, or in immediate vicinity of the location of any of the towers.
The overhead line replacement project has been assessed against the cultural heritage baseline. Taking into account the construction methodology to be employed and agreed mitigation strategy, it is considered that the development conforms to Local and National Policy relating to the cultural heritage resource.
Funder: Iberdrola
CFA Archaeology Ltd
Note (23 March 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 23/03/2019
Compiled by: ScRAP
Location Notes: The panel is a raised domed sandstone outcrop situated immediately beside the public path running N from the Cochno Road about 200m away, at a junction in the path. The panel is on a gentle SSW facing slope in bracken and rough grazing on the edge of open deciduous woodland, and about 8m E of a wire fence into improved pasture fields. There is an electricity pylon about 200m to the S and an enclosed mobile phone mast about 100m to the E. There are views S to Law Farm and Glasgow. The panel lies 2m SW of the carved rock art Whitehill 2 (Canmore 44538, ScRAP 922) and about 50m SW of the three panels at Whitehill 3, 4 and 5 (all currently grouped under Canmore 44534, ScRAP 1750). Whitehill 6 (Canmore 44517, ScRAP 2139) lies 50m to the SW in woodland.
Panel Notes: There is a cluster of 4 cupmarks and 4 cups with single rings, 2 of which intersect, on the highest point of the panel, at its W end where the rock slopes steeply away. There are also a series of natural sub-circular features, particularly on its S edge, that could be mistaken for rock art motifs.
