Upper Largie 1
Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Site Name Upper Largie 1
Classification Cup Marked Rock (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Corlarach
Canmore ID 39527
Site Number NR89NW 80
NGR NR 83396 99463
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39527
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmartin
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR89NW 80 8339 9946.
In rough ground on E edge of gravel terrace on E slope of a mossy exposure of smooth rock, 5 single cups, of which 4 are close together and the other c.2m to S.
A Kahane 1983.
NR 8338 9947. Six yards S of the above, excavation revealed a further 17 cups.
Sponsor:Keltic Research Society.
Naddair 1994d.
NR 8342 9945 Adjacent to the rock bearing four plain cups (supra) is a smooth outcrop panel with four plain cups; four doubtful grooves; one crude cup with oval gapped ring and runner-cup: two cups with two gapped rings, one with short tail.
van Hoek and van Hoek 1994c.
Field Visit (May 1984)
NR 834 994. Situated in the corner of an arable field, and about 2m S of the highest point of a low rocky outcrop 500m SSW of Upper Largie farmhouse, there is a rock-sheet which bears four weathered cupmarks (up to 80mm by 20mm); a single isolated cupmark is visible 1.6m to the S. A single large cupmark (90mm by 20mm) lies 31m to the NNE.
Visited March 1984.
RCAHMS 1998.
Note (23 October 2018)
Date Fieldwork Started: 23/10/2018
Compiled by: ScRAP Team
Location Notes: The panel is located on a large rocky outcrop on top of a ridge forming the E edge of an active gravel quarry to the NW of the village Kilmartin. The outcrop has clear views in all directions and particularly over the N end of Kilmartin Glen, and towards Kilmartin village about 500 m to the S. Glebe Cairn (Canmore ID: 39357) is also visible to the W of the village within Kilmartin Glen. The outcrop forms the uppermost part of the ridge and covers an area of approximately 15 m x 10 m. To the E side of the ridge the land slopes steeply through a small area of mature woodland down to a flat field used for rough grazing, which lies to the W of the private road leading to Upper Largie farm. The outcrop is largely covered in turf, moss and reeds. A number of areas were investigated by lifting turf, where possible (see sketch for Upper Largie Quarry area) and two panels were identified: Upper Largie 1 and Upper Largie 2. A further panel, Upper Largie 3 (Canmore ID: 83189), is located in a field approximately 150 m to the NE.
Upper Largie 1 is located on the W side of the outcrop, just below its highest point, in a flat area which drops steeply just beyond the panel's W edge, towards the quarry and a field boundary. It lies about 10 m to the W of Upper Largie 2.
Panel Notes: Upper Largie 1 is roughly rectangular in shape and measures approximately 1.4 x 1.1 m. It lies on a flat area to the W side of the outcrop of which it forms part, and is flush with the ground.
There are three large cupmarks lying in a line running broadly NE-SW, with a smaller cupmark close by and to the W side of this grouping. Further to the W of this arrangement, on the other side of a natural fissure, there is a large dumbbell motif, also lying on a NE-SW axis, and which appears to have been formed through enhancement of a natural hollow. A further possible cupmark lies on the edge of the natural depression running from the S end of the dumbbell motif. It was not possible to remove turf to the S end of the panel to establish the position of any further markings described following previous surveys.
