Site type CARVED STONE(S)
Canmore ID 135069
Site Number NJ72SW 154
NGR NJ 710 208
Council ABERDEENSHIRE
Parish CHAPEL OF GARIOCH
Former Region GRAMPIAN
Former District GORDON
Former County ABERDEENSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NJ72SW 154 c. 710 208 and c. 707 208

In about 1977 an irregularly-shaped granite boulder, bearing large, cup-shaped depressions, was found by the side of a ditch in an arable field (NJ 710 208) about 300m ESE of Broadsea farmsteading (NJ72SW 126). The stone now lies on the N side of the steading yard, but it is the farmer's intension to move it to beside the two other carved stones noted below. The block measures 0.75m by 0.75m and 0.38m in thickness, and it bears large cup-shaped depressions on both its faces. On one face there are three large cups measuring respectively 270mm in diameter and 85mm in depth, 260mm by 220mm in diameter and 90mm in depth, and 200mm by 160mm and 20mm in depth. On the other face there is a single large cup measuring 250mm in diameter and 60mm in depth.
The original findspots of two other carved stones are unknown, but they presently lie beside a dry-stone wall (NJ 7078 2078) on the S side of the steading. The first is a granite boulder which measures 0.6m by 0.55m and 0.4m in thickness. On one face there is a cup-shaped depression measuring 230mm by 200mm in diameter and 60mm in depth. On the other face of the stone there is an oval cup measuring 320mm by 280mm and 125mm in depth.
The second stone is also a granite boulder which measures 0.8m by 0.5m and 0..27m in thickness. On one face there are two cups, measuring 240mm in diameter and 80mm in depth, and 220mm in diameter and 80mm in depth respectively. On the other there is a cup measuring 250mm in diameter and 100mm in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 24 July 1996.