Kaimes Hill
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kaimes Hill
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 50356
Site Number NT16NW 43
NGR NT 1307 6654
NGR Description Centred on 1307 6654
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50356
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Ratho
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT16NW 43 132 665.
Situated 120m E of the hilltop, 3m S of the N edge of the ridge, but now all removed in road-making, were the tops of many basalt columns. On some of these interspersed by turf and sloping where carved 0-10 degrees were carved at least 16 cups-and-rings, 3 with two rings, the rest probably with one, all rings probably un-gapped, and some with a groove leading outwards from the cup or ring. Two small blocks were cut off before the site was destroyed and moved to the Scottish Development Department in Edinburgh and two more are in the mason's store in the Linlithgow Palace. One of the former bears 2 cups-and-two-rings which are tangential, and one of the latter, has a cup only. Greatest diameter is 15cm (6 in) and carving depths up to 3cm (1 in). Casts of parts are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession nos IA 50-56).
R W B Morris 1981
