Moncrieffe House

NO11NW 6 1389 1929 and 1390 1929

At NO 1389 1929 is a cup and ring marked stone lying at the western side of the entrance to a summer house. It is 0.9m long x 0.55m wide x 0.15m thick, having about a dozen simple cup marks and three well defined single rings without cups, not quite circular. The largest ring has a maximum diameter of 0.3m.

At NO 1390 1929 on the eastern side of the entrance to the same summer house is another stone (bearing about six possible cup marks) 0.9m long, from 0.3 to 0.7m wide x 0.2m maximum thickness. The provenance of these stones could not be ascertained.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (R D L), 9 June 1964.

The decorated stones noted by the OS at Moncrieffe House (NO11NW 41.00) are still in their reported position about 200m ESE of the house, but the summer-house referred to in the previous report no longer exists.

(NO 1389 1929). The western stone measures 1.02m from NNW to SSE by 0.7m and at least 0.15m in thickness; on its upper surface there are at least seventeen cupmarks, the largest measuring up to 75mm in diameter. In addition, there are four roughly oval ring-marks, and a fragment of a fifth, the largest of which measures 295mm across. Within these rings there are flat-bottomed depressions.

(NO 1390 1929). The eastern stone measures at least 0.9m from E to W by 0.85m and at least 0.3m in thickness; it bears at least seventeen cupmarks measuring up to 70mm in diameter.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 9 December 1996.