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Clauchendolly
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Site Name Clauchendolly
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 63931
Site Number NX64NW 10
NGR NX 6438 4711
NGR Description Centred NX 6438 4711
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Borgue
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX64NW 10 6438 4711 to 6437 4710.
(NX 643 472) Cup-and-ring marked rocks, Clauchandolly.
'A'. There are four cups in line, two large cups, the largest being 3" deep and 4 1/2" in diameter, and a small cup carved on an outcrop, 2' by 1 1/2", 19 yds S of an electricity pole, 90 yds W of field wall.
'B' 5 yds SE of the same pole, and 14 yds N of 'A' on an outcrop 5' by 1', are a cup and two rings, 3 1/2" in diameter, one cup and perhaps three other cups.
I F MacLeod and R W B Morris 1969
'A'-at NX 6437 4710; none of these marks is certainly genuine.
'B'- at NX 6438 4711, the marks are very faint but certainly those described by Morris.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 2 February 1971
Clauchendolly (13)
NX 6438 4713 1 cup enclosed by 5 clear rings with an arc of a 6th; 1 cup enclosed by 2 rings; 1 cup enclosed by 1 ring; 9 solo cups are on a fractured 7 piece outcrop from site (6)
Clauchendolly (14)
NX 6437 4712 1 cup enclosed by an ovoid ring which has a runnel snaking off its top to loop around another cup; 3 large solo cups.
Sponsor: Keltic Research Society
K Naddair and S Willett 1996.
