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Nether Linkens
Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Site Name Nether Linkens
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 64519
Site Number NX75SE 10
NGR NX 7510 5466
NGR Description Centred NX 7510 5466
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64519
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Rerrick
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX75SE 10 centred 7510 5466
NX 750 546. Cup and Ring marked Rocks, Nether Linkens: At the S end of a small wood, some 200 yds N of Nether Linkens and some 33' W of the wall which separates the cultivated land from he hill, a small group of cup and ring marks is sculptured on the rounded side of a ridge of rock 10' long and exposed for a height of 2'. Morris notes at least five cups and one-to-five rings, and traces of other marks, but more were visible when seen by Coles and the RCAHMS.
On a separate block some 5' from the SW end of the above, is a single cup-and-four-rings, also much worn.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; F R Coles 1895; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1966
NX 7510 5466 On a smooth rock outcrop 3.7m by 0.7m is a group of very faint cup and ring marks consisting of four cups with one ring, one cup with two rings, and one cup with five rings. There are also several shallow cups with no rings. Two metres to the north-west of this rock is another smooth outcrop 1.8m by 1.5m with one cup with four rings upon it.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 27 June 1977
Nether Linkens (1b)
NX 7512 5466 Removing turf from the western end of this outcrop revealed 3 major runnels that end in a hooked-ring near to ground level.
Nether Linkens (3)
NX 7513 5467 Some 6 yards NE of (1 and 2) and 1 yard from a drystone dyke, a large sloping outcrop was excavated (and subsequently turf covered), the top of the rings in some motifs are faint having been weathered c100-200 years ago, the lowr reaches are deeply and clearly picked. 1 cup enclosed by 6 rings (almost 1m in diameter) from this buds 1 cup enclosed by 3 ovaloid rings, from this buds 1 cup enclosed by 1 ring joined to it by 4 spokes (= a sun-wheel); 1 cup enclosed by 5 rings; 1 cup enclosed by 4 rings; 3 cups enclosed by 2 rings (1 spiralish); 4 cups enclosed by 1 ring; plus a tangle of 12 or more runnels and c19 solo cups.
Nether Linkens (4)
NX 7511 5466 1 cup enclosed by 3 rings; 1 cup enclosed by 2 rings (?spiralish); 2 solo cups. On exposed outcrop c10 yards N from (1 and 2).
Sponsor: The Keltic Research Society.
K Naddair and S Willett 1995.
