Mossyard

NX55SW 14 5452 5141

See also NX55SW 15 and NX55SW 16.

NX 546 515 Cup-and-Ring marked rock, Mossyard. A wedge-shaped rock outcrop, some 6' long is situated near the shore 700yds SW of Mossyard, at a point where a stile leads over the field wall to the rocks. It bears a single cup with five concentric rings, the whole of which figure lies in one sector of a nearby circular double groove measuring about twice the diameter of the largest rings.

RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; R W Feachem 1963; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967

This rock was located at NX 5452 5141. Immediately to the NE a second cup with three concentric rings was observed.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

The second cup-and-ring marked rock is possibly NX55SW 15.

Visited by OS (RD) 13 March 1972

As described in previous reports. In addition there are some other, very faint, markings but nothing resembling the double groove could be identified. On the same outcrop is the cup with three rings. There is also a line of about a dozen elongated cup-shaped depressions which are almost certainly the result of natural weathering.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (BS) 22 June 1977

NX 5453 5143 Noted for the first time by Mr Naddair are 2 parallel runnels which form 60% of a 'cartouche' (the other 40% has flaked off the W side).

Sponsor: The Keltic Research Society.

K Naddair, C Mackenzie and S Willet 1995.