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New Craig
Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name New Craig
Classification Cup Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 18823
Site Number NJ72NW 4
NGR NJ 7458 2968
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Daviot
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72NW 4 7458 2968
For adjacent recumbent stone circle, see NJ72NW 3.
There is a very large mossgrown boulder, over 9ft (2.74m) long, 4ft (1.2m) broad and 3ft 6ins (1.07m) high, with 19 cup-marks on its surface, the largest 3ins (76mm) in diameter and 3/4ins (19mm) deep (Ritchie 1918), 84ft (25.6m) E from the point 'S' on the plan of New Craig stone circle (NJ72NW 3). There is no apparent association with the stone circle (Coles 1902).
F R Coles 1902; J Ritchie 1918.
At NJ 7458 2968, a cup-marked boulder, as described.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 28 February 1969.
Scheduled as 'New Craig, cupmarked boulder 230m WNW of... a large single boulder bearing a group of... cupmarkes... It is located in a mature, fenced conifer woodland, surrounded by arable land at 155m above sea level. The boulder sits on a gentle NE-facing slope, 100m east of a low N-S running ridge on the N side of Strathdon. The above-ground portion of the earthfast boulder is 2.7m wide, 1.2m broad and 1m high.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 9 November 2007.
