Cairnholy 6
Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Cairnholy 6
Classification Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Cairnholy 6; Cairn Holy; Kirkdale
Canmore ID 63737
Site Number NX55SW 39
NGR NX 51850 54960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63737
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX55SW 39 5185 5496.
NX517 550. Cup and ring marked rock, Cairnholy. On moor ten yards north of wall, two hundred yards east of sheepfank, on a small rock in a recent ditch, is carved a clear cup and a rather faint ring.
R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967
NX5185 5496. This poor example of a cup and ring mark is on a rock outcrop which was exposed by a shallow drainage ditch.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 10 June 1977
Van Hoek did not locate this stone, but Naddair excavated more of its surface, and his illustration shows three cups with one ring each and five plain cups.
M A M van Hoek 1995, K Naddair 1995.
Field Visit (11 April 1994)
This cup and-ring-marked stone lies on the N side of a drainage ditch in rough pasture, about 10m N of a field dyke and some 150m ENE of a sheepfold. The surface of the stone, which is partly hidden by turf, measures 2m in length from ENE to WSW by 0.7m in breadth. On it there are three cups with one ring, up to 190mm in diameter and 25mm deep, and two possible cups which measure 90mm and 110mm in diameter. (Cree94 202)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 11 April 1994
Note (13 April 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 13/04/2019
Compiled by: Whithorn
Location Notes: Located 10m to the N of a stone wall, on bedrock in the bottom of a recent drainage ditch, approx 200m E of sheep fank on the land to the north of Cairnholy. (Note - the OS map places the rock art at NX 5167954678, where there is a small boulder on the edge of the drainage ditch, but this boulder does not appear to have any rock art, and is not Cairnholy 6. Cairnholy 6 is 50m further down the drainage ditch on a section of bedrock).
Panel Notes: A section of bedrock, exposed in the base of a drainage ditch, with the visible area measuring 2.8m by 0.7m in size, and lies flat. There are two visible cup marks measuring 90mm and 100mm in width; one appears to be pecked, the other roughly pecked (labelled 'tool marked'). There is also a small cone shaped cup (45mm) of uncertain origin, which may be natural.
There are several deep rock-cut grooves made by a machine across the surface; these have presumably been made by the farmer when attempting to deepen the drainage ditch. This panel was previously recorded as including a cup and ring mark but this was not identified at time of survey.
