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Milton Parks 8
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Milton Parks 8
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 64450
Site Number NX74NW 50
NGR NX 70394 45746
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64450
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkcudbright
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX74SW 50 70384 45744
NX 7038 4575. Situated on an outcrop at the end of a slight ridge, is a NW facing rock 2.8 x 2.5 x 0.7m high bearing a cup-and single-ring.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 8 April 1971
NX 7039 4573. Located during a survey of cup and ring-marked rocks in 1990. No details given. (May possibly refer to one of the sites noted by Coles (NX74NW 33, NX74NW 35, NX74NW 36 ) but not located since).
(Description previously noted under NX74NW 90)
M van Hoek 1990.
This whale-backed rock bears a cup-and-ring on its upper surface. The cup measures 25mm in diameter by 5mm in depth and the ring is 70mm in diameter.
(KTA02 278)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC) 25 November 2002
Note (19 March 2019)
Date Fieldwork Started: 19/03/2019
Compiled by: Kirkcudbright
Location Notes: The panel is situated in improved pasture on MOD land on a small outcrop on the NE sloping side of a hill, not far from the highest point. The ridge upon which the panel is situated had been quarried in the past, as had other rocky outcrops. There are extensive views all around, but the day this rock was surveyed was overcast and hazy so it was not possible to see the views. The lower part of the field was boggy and a small stream flowed from this area. The panel is near a gate into the next field. There are several other rock art panels in this field carved on hog backed shaped rocks.
Panel Notes: This greywacke outcrop measures 2.6 x 1.8m. It is very weathered. There are many fissures and cracks running NW-SE and E-W. On the smoother and flat top of the outcrop is 1 small cup and ring. The ring is 7cm in diameter. The carved surface faces W.
