Drumderg

NO15SE 27 1852 5497.

At NO 1852 5497 is a naturally-placed boulder, almost square (1.3m x 1.3m x 0.5m) which bears on its upper, almost horizontal, surface about 25 weathered cup marks. Four at least are surrounded by a single ring, and there are two pairs with double rings.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (AA) 25 April 1974

Situated on the SE flank of Drumderg, this roughly kite-shaped boulder (1.9m NW-SE by 1.7m) bears at least twenty-eight cup marks on its sharply-sloping SW-face. Two of the cups are surrounded by triple rings (or parts of) and there is a double or oval cup (100mm by 70mm) which is partially encircled by four rings; in addition four or five cups have single rings.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 3 March 1988.

RCAHMS 1990

In order to carry out the Archaeological requirement of an environmental assessment at the proposed locations of three windfarms, a programme of documentary and archival research and field survey was undertaken by GUARD in July 1994. The work was commissioned by Energy Unlimited on behalf of The New World Power Company Limited. Of the three sites examined, Hart Hill (SC03), was the only one to be free of archaeological structures. The two remaining sites Drumderg (SC01) and Dulater Hill (SC04) have a number of archaeological structures in the immediate area but few in the proposed construction area. With slight modifications in layout and careful planning these should not be an obstacle to the proposed projects.

GUARD 1994