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High Auchenlarie
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Site Name High Auchenlarie
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) High Auchenlarie 1
Canmore ID 63722
Site Number NX55SW 25
NGR NX 5395 5340
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Anwoth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX55SW 25 5395 5340.
(NX 539 533) Cup-and-Ring marked rock, High Auchenlarie:- A rock outcrop, sometimes grass-covered, situated 51' SW of the tallest stone in the setting of stone circle NX55SW 8, bears a cup and two rings, cup and one ring and some cups.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1912; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967; I F MacLeod 1969
Located as described at NX 5396 5339.
Visited by OS (RD) 14 March 1972
NX 53955340 A cup and ring marked rock as described in the previous information.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 31 May 1977
Van Hoek describes and illustrates 'High Auchenlarie 1': 'nine plain cups; one cup with tail; one cup with one gapped ring, its ring end having a small dot; one cup with two rings (150mm diameter) and a tail ending in a cupmark.'
M A M Van Hoek 1995.
Field Visit (23 February 1994)
This rock outcrop is situated in an improved-pasture field about 280m NE of High Auchenlarie farmsteading. At least nine cups were counted on the exposed face, which tips to the E, along with a cup and-one-ring and a cup and-two-rings, the last of these having a radial groove running E from the centre.
(Cree94 90)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 23 February 1994
