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Blairbuy 1

Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)

Site Name Blairbuy 1

Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)

Alternative Name(s) Stellock

Canmore ID 62758

Site Number NX34SE 16

NGR NX 37193 41422

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Glasserton
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX34SE 16 3719 4142.

(NX 3715 4139) Cup & Ring Marked Rocks (NR) (2 shown)

OS 6" map (1957)

The RCAHMS described a low flat rock outcrop in Langmaiden Feys, sculptured as illustrated by RCAHMS. Morris, however, describes two figures, sometimes mud-covered, on a slab outcrop. There is a cup with 3 rings, and one with 2 faint ones, while photographs (taken in 1930) in Stranraer Museum show a further 2 cup-and-2-rings.

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967

At NX 3719 4142 there is a low flat outcrop of rock sculptured with one cup and four rings. No trace of any cup-and-ring marks could be found at the published site which is an area of turf-covered rock.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (IA) 30 January 1973

Activities

Field Visit (7 July 1911)

Cup and Ring Marks, Langmaiden Feys.

In the Langmaiden Feys on the farm of Blairbuy, S. of the Fell of Barhullion, and about ¼ m. N. of Laroch farm buildings, is a low flat outcrop of rock, on the surface of which there is a single large ring mark, consisting of five concentric rings with no radial groove (fig. 14). The symbol is slightly imperfect at one side owing to a fracture of the rock.

O.S.M., WIGTOWN, xxxi. SW.

Visited 7th July 1911.

Note (5 September 2019)

Date Fieldwork Started: 05/09/2019

Compiled by: ScRAP

Location Notes: Located on a SW facing gentle slope, 300m to the ENE of Stellock farm, approximately 250m (halfway)from the N and S end of a field of rough grazing, and 15m to the W of the E boundary wall. There are several other rock art panels in proximity to this panel: Blairbuy 13 is positioned c. 30m to the SE, downhill, where Blairbuy 7 is c. 40m to the SSW. The field was in use for cattle grazing at time of survey. There are extensive views to the SW and to the sea.

Panel Notes: A roughly oval shaped panel 7m by 3.8m in size and up to 0.8m in height. There are numerous fissures across the surface of the panel which run in multiple directions, and some of which include quartz veins. There are also quartz chunks embedded in the surface across the outcrop. The panel has been carved at the highest point in the S/SW with a large motif consisting of a cup and five rings with a possible tail; the outer three tings are partial and the outermost extends across a quartz vein away from the motif and towards a second smaller motif comprising of a cup with one complete and one partial ring. A third motif sits to the north of the others comprising of a cup with two partial rings.

Field Visit

NX 3718 4141 Blarbuy 13 One cup end by one ring outcrop near wall.

Funder: The Keltic Research Society

Kaledon Naddair, S Willett, M Hales and C Mackenzie

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