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Castleton 7
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Castleton 7
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Castleton 5
Canmore ID 46822
Site Number NS88NE 14
NGR NS 85550 88111
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46822
- Council Stirling
- Parish St Ninians
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS88NE 14 8554 8811.
NS 862 883. Cup and ring marked rock. Situated 50yds SE of NS88NE 11, are (a) a clear cup-and-four-rings and cup-and-three rings, (b) 2yds E, faint cup-and-three rings; (c) 8yds NE, faint cup-and-ring and (d) 8yds N, faint cup-and-ring.
R W B Morris 1969
NS 8554 8811:- Two cup and ring marked rocks, generally as described. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 8 February 1973
'About 8m NE of Castleton 5a is a single cup and one ring, 9cm in diameter on a very large domed outcrop sloping 20 degrees S where carved.'
R Morris and M van Hoek 1986.
Note (1979)
Castleton 5 NS 855 881 NS88NE 14
A rock outcrop bearing cup-marks surrounded by up to four rings.
RCAHMS 1979
Morris 1968, 72, no. 178
Note (11 December 2018)
Date Fieldwork Started: 11/12/2018
Compiled by: ScRAP Team
Location Notes: The Castleton complex of rock art lies on farmland approximately 2km SE of Cowie, 8km SE of Stirling and approximately 2km from the Forth at its closest point (Throsk, to the N). It comprises a number of outcrop ridges situated in arable and grazing land principally in the area surrounding Castleton Farmhouse. Part of the complex – comprising the area of a field beside and to the NW of Castleton Farmyard – has been scheduled.
Castleton 7 is located within the scheduled area to the NW of Castleton farmyard. The field containing the scheduled area is crossed from NW-SE by an outcrop ridge, generally slopes gradually to the NE on one side and more steeply to the SW on the other side, and along which Castleton 1 – 7 are located. The field is used for grazing cattle. Castleton 7 is situated at the edge of a wooded area principally made up of whin and birch trees, and about 100m WNW of Castleton farmyard. It lies on an exposed area of outcrop on the SW edge of the outcrop ridge, dropping steeply to the field about 7m below it. This panel appears as Castleton 5a under the general heading of Castleton 5 in Canmore ID 46822, which groups it with other carved rocks. These other panels (previously recorded as Castleton 5b-d) are recorded separately under Castleton 9 (ScRAP 1945). Descriptions of the panels, and a photograph of Castleton 5a can be found in Morris (1986) The Prehistoric Rock Art of Southern Scotland (except Argyll and Galloway) (p. 47) and Van Hoek (1996) Prehistoric Rock around Castleton Farm, Airth, Central Scotland, in Forth Naturalist & Historian, vol. 19.).
Panel Notes: This part of a large, irregularly-shaped sandstone outcrop, measuring over 5m in length and 4m in width, situated on the SW edge of the ridge running NW-SE. There is a more-or-less vertical drop of about 7m from the panel to the field below. The motifs are found on a small exposed area at the NW end of the outcrop, measuring about 1.1 x 0.9m across its surface and 0.3m in height, rising to about 0.7m at its highest point. There are 2 cup-and-ring marks, one with 4 (or possibly 5) rings and the other with 3 rings. The cup-and-three rings measures about 23cm across, and the other motif is slightly larger, at 23 x 26cm. The rings on this motif appear to be partial in places, but it is not clear whether this is as a result of erosion.
