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Park Of Tongland 1
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Park Of Tongland 1
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Argrennan Mains
Canmore ID 64508
Site Number NX75NW 30
NGR NX 70468 56867
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64508
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Tongland
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX75NW 30 704 568
Recently exposed outcrop in pasture with 2 sets of ring marks. These consist of:-
a) 6 concentric semi-circles centred on deeply cut cup mark (maximum diameter c.600mm).
b) 2 concentric rings centred on shallow cup mark.
A third cup mark sits between the 2 ring marks.
R McCullagh 1987; O Owen, J Rideout and R McCullagh 1987
NX 7047 5685. The outcrop bearing two cup and ring marks (DES 1987) was plotted and the marks photographed. Archive in the Stewartry Museum, Kirkcudbright.
Sponsor: Stewartry Museum.
D F Devereux 2001.
Note (18 January 2016)
Date Fieldwork Started: 18/01/2016
Compiled by: Kirkcudbright
Location Notes: The panel is situated beyond the end of a trackway that runs through the farm yard, in a marshy area of improved pasture at the top of an exposed hillock. There are extensive views over 360 degrees, towards Bengairn and overlooking scattered woodland and rocky outcrops or knowles. There is a spring to the N and a lochan to the S. It lies approximately 250m from the River Dee. Nearby but more than 200m away there is a prehistoric cremation cemetry including a kerb cairn and a barrow.
Panel Notes: This is a sub-rectangular area of greywacke outcrop measuring roughly 2m x 0.75m, and low lying, rising to a maximum of 18cm. Its smooth flat surface slopes very gently to the E with its long axis oriented N-S. It was mostly hidden by a thick layer of turf. There a a few fissures which run E-W. The panel features a deep-cut cupmark with 6 concentric rings and a radial, a shallow cupmark with 2 concentric rings, and a third cupmark situated between the 2 cup and ring motifs.
