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Blackhill Cottage 1
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Blackhill Cottage 1
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Blackhill
Canmore ID 63904
Site Number NX64NE 25
NGR NX 69330 46630
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63904
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcudbright
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX64NE 25 6933 4663.
(NX 693 466) There are 6 cups-and-one (possibly more) ring, and one 'saucer' carved on a 3' flat outcrop of whinstone 80 yds ESE of Blackhill Cottage.
R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967; RCAHMS 1914
Located at NX 6933 4663.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 13 January 1971
The markings now visible here are three cups-and-rings, with one, two, and three rings respectively, up to 21cm in diameter, two sets complete, one broken off at the edge, a basin 15cm in diameter, and at least nine cups. (Morris gives a plan and photographs.)
R W B Morris 1979.
Mr van Hoek notes additional markings here, but gives no details.
M van Hoek 1990.
Note (11 April 2018)
Date Fieldwork Started: 11/04/2018
Compiled by: Kirkcudbright
Location Notes: The panel is situated in improved pasture on a rocky outcrop on a spur on the SW facing hillside and about 150m from the top of the hill, overlooking the Dee Estuary. It lies about 80m ESE of Blackhill Cottage. There are extensive views towards the west and Cairnsmore of Fleet, although the views to the S are blocked by the hillside and a plantation. There is a small burn nearby, which makes the trackway very muddy, although the hillside is dry. There are several carved panels on the same outcrop.
Panel Notes: This exposed area of greywacke outcrop measuring 1.8 x 0.9m and 0.4m maximum height, sloping to the SE. It comprises two carved surfaces 0.26m from each other, in a cluster of 3 panels in the larger outcrop. Turf was removed to expose all the rock surface, but there are only motifs visible on part of the outcrop. These include, on one carved surface, 2 cup and single ring motifs, both 14cm in diameter, 1 cup with 2 rings of 15cm diameter, and 1 cup with 2 partial rings. There are also 2 cups and a depression or 'saucer' 12 cm in diameter filled with peck marks. On the second carved surface there is 1 larger cup with 2 outer smaller cups making use of a natural depression in the rock to make a possible partial rosette.
