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Kirkdale Mains 1
Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Kirkdale Mains 1
Classification Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Kirkdale Mains 1
Canmore ID 63740
Site Number NX55SW 41
NGR NX 51350 53831
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63740
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX55SW 41 5134 5383.
NX 5134 5383. Cup-and-ring marked rock.
Visited by OS field surveyor (MJ) 9 February 1979.
Naddair has excavated much more of this outcrop, which he calls Kirkdale Mains 1. He illustrates over eighty cups, many of them plain, about twenty of them surrounded by up to four rings, and others linked by grooves. He also draws attention to a well-preserved spiral. The turf was replaced over the outcrop once the markings had been recorded. Naddair gives NX 5135 5411 as the NGR for this site, but his location map makes it clear that he is describing the outcrop at NX 5134 5383.
K Naddair 1995.
Field Visit (28 April 1994)
There is one cup, measuring 40mm in diameter and 15mm deep on an outcrop crossed by a field wall 200m NNE of Kirkdale Mains farmsteading. The cup is on the N side of the wall. Other depressions in the outcrop appear to be natural.
(Cree94 306)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 28 April 1994
Note (9 June 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 09/06/2019
Compiled by: Kirkcudbright
Location Notes: Located on the N side of the stone wall running E-W, where the outcrop extends from under the wall in an area of improved pasture. Kirkdale Mains Farm is at the bearing of 204 degrees to the SW at 200m distance. The building in the wood next to the old Church bears 321 degrees to the NW, approximately 230m distance; Cairnholy 1 chambered cairn bears 79 degrees to the NE 450m away.
Panel Notes: A long, relatively narrow panel measuring 2.6m by 0.5m in size and up to 0.4m in height. The upper, relatively flat main surface has been carved with three, possibly four cups, in a row along the outcrop.
Note: Nearby on a 1.5m by 1m striated boulder at NX 51346 53832 is a possible cup mark; another stone adjoins this, measuring 1m x 2m which also has 1 possible cup mark.
