Alternative Names Duncroisk 4
Site type CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK
Canmore ID 24168
Site Number NN53NW 15
NGR NN 5322 3582
Council STIRLING
Parish KILLIN
Former Region CENTRAL
Former District STIRLING
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NN53NW 15 5322 3582.

In a field E of Duncroisk and just S of the road is a prominent ridge of quartzite schist bearing eight groups of cup marks (many ringed) on its upper surface. The cups are up to 4 cms deep and the rings up to 25 cms in diameter.
'A': About 4.0m from the E end of the ridge are some ill-defined cup marks on very rough stratified rock.
'B': 9.0m further W on a near horizontal shelf are one cup with two rings, 14 cups with one ring and at least 58 single cups.
'C': 1.0m further W are a clearly defined cup with two rings and a single cup.
'D': 1.0, further W are one cup with two rings, three cups with one
ring and two single cups.
'E': 0.25m further W are two cups with one ring and 35 single cups.
'F': 7.0m further W is an area of three cups with one ring and 60
single cups.
'G': 3.0m further W are 10 cups with one ring and 15 single cups.
'H': 1.0m further SW is a small slab bearing three cups.
D Haggart 1895; C G Cash 1912; E A Cormack 1952; R W B Morris TS 1975

NN 5322 3584 to NN 5319 3583. An area of cup and ring marked rock as described.
Visited by OS (GHP) 5 July 1962 and (BS) 10 September 1975

NN 532 358 A long ridge of rock outcrop bearing eight groups of cup and cup-and-ring marks.
RCAHMS 1979; visited September 1978
D Haggart 1895; C G Cash 1912

Cash, C G (1912) 'Archaeological gleanings from Killin', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.46
Page(s): 270-3

Cormack, E A (1952) 'Cross-markings and cup markings at Duncroisk, Glenlochay', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.84
Page(s): 172

Haggart, D (1895) 'Notice of the discovery of cup and ring sculpturings at Duncrosk, near the Falls of Lochay, in Glenlochay', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.29
Page(s): 92-3