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Colintraive
Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Site Name Colintraive
Classification Cup And Ring Marked Stone (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 40500
Site Number NS07SW 9
NGR NS 0338 7457
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40500
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inverchaolain
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS07SW 9 0338 7457.
NS 034 747. Fifteen metres south of the new Village Hall, Colintraive, was an old building, once the inn. When it was demolished, a stone was found among the rubble which had on its perhaps smoothed surface two well-defined cups and complete rings. The cups have four and three rings respectively, the overall diameters being 37cm and 20cm. The greatest carving depth was 1cm.
R W B Morris 1977; R Barr 1976.
This stone is now in Rothesay Museum. The demolished building from whence it came stood at NS 0338 7457.
Visited by OS (B S) 7 December 1976
Field Visit (May 1986)
This cup-and-ring marked boulder, which is now in the Isle of Bute Museum, Rothesay, was found in the demolition debris from the former inn at Colintraive (Barr 1976). It is a roughly rectangular block measuring 0.66m by 0.49m by 0.15m and bears one cup with four rings and a second with three rings; both markings have been damaged by later reshaping of the stone (Morris 1977). It is possible that the boulder came originally from the cairn NS07SW 1.
Visited May 1986
RCAHMS 1988
Measured Survey (May 1986)
RCAHMS surveyed Colintraive cup-and-ring markings on May 1986 with plane-table and alidade producing a plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan of the cup-and-ring markings was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1988a, 109).
Measured Survey (14 October 2010)
Measured drawing of the cup marked stone, now in Bute Museum.
