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Kirkdale House 3
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Kirkdale House 3
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Lower Laggan Cottage; Lower Laggan House
Canmore ID 63713
Site Number NX55SW 17
NGR NX 51430 53253
NGR Description NX 515 533 to 54 53
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63713
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX55SW 17 515 533 to 54 53
See also NX55SW 18.
Cup-and-ring marks, Lower Laggan Cottage: A thin slab of whinstone 2.0' x 1.5' broken in 3 parts, which was found built into a dyke on Upper Laggon Hill, was set up in the garden of Lower Laggan Cottage (NX 545 526). It bore 17 cups, of which 12 had a narrow ring surrounding them. Several grooves ran between the various marks. The slab was lost again in 1964.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1912; R W Feachem 1963; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967
No further information. This upper one-third of the missing slab from Lower Laggan Cottage has now been identified as the stone in the shed behind Kirkdale House which was previously believed by its owner to have come from Upper Newton Farm (see NX55SW 18).
Information from R W B Morris 7 June 1980.
(Formerly scheduled as Lower Laggan House). Descheduled.
Information from Historic Scotland, certificate of exclusion from schedule dated 14 March 1991.
Note (22 February 2018)
Date Fieldwork Started: 22/02/2018
Compiled by: ScRAP
Location Notes: The panel has been moved from its original context and is now located in a shelter in private garden ground at Kirkdale House. It is understood to be part of a larger panel, the other section of which has been lost. This also appears to be the same panel as identified at ScRAP 2164/Canmore 63714.
Panel Notes: This is a small, narrow, irregularly-shape slab cemented in position and arranged to stand on its edge. It is located along with other rock art panels within a shelter in the grounds of Kirkdale House. It measures 0.6 x 0.3m and rises to 0.2 in height (in these measurements the length indicates the longest axis across the panel face and the width the other axis across its face. The 'height' therefore is an indicator of the 'thickness' of the panel).
The panel is understood to be part of a larger panel, the other section of which is now lost, and the break in the panel edge is clear, and truncates some of the motifs. Most of the panel is densely covered with thirteen symmetrical circular cups measuring 3-8cm in diameter and up to 15mm deep. There are also two further possible cups. The panel is traversed across its width by a groove, separating the available surface into two areas, with motifs on both sides of this groove.
Of the cups, nine have narrow single rings surrounding them, although in some cases these are not complete rings, or the rings are partially truncated by the break in the stone surface. There are curving tails leading from five of the cup-and-ring motifs, and a tail leading from one of the single cups. A larger single cup is also linked by a curving groove to another, smaller single cup. In one case a tail from a cup-and-ring mark leads to the traversing groove. There are a number of random peckmarks, although some are clustered. Peck-marking is also visible in some of the grooves and rings.
