Cuff Hill
Rocking Stone (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cuff Hill
Classification Rocking Stone (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rocking Stone
Canmore ID 42122
Site Number NS35NE 13
NGR NS 3827 5542
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/42122
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Beith (Cunninghame)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Ayrshire
NS35NE 13 3827 5542.
(NS 3827 5542) Rocking Stone (NR)
OS 6" map (1911)
This rocking stone is a large erractic boulder of basaltic greenstone lying on porphyrite. Its parent bed is at barcraigs about a mile away. The boulder is 4ft 4ins high and has a circumference of about 19ft 7ins. R Love 1876
The 'Rocking Stone' is an irregularly - shaped boulder, 5.8m in circumference and 1.2m high. It is a natural feature.
Visited by OS (DS) 28 August 1956
