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Glasserton Mains

Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)

Site Name Glasserton Mains

Classification Cup And Ring Marked Rock (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 63100

Site Number NX43NW 1

NGR NX 4061 3737

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Glasserton
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX43NW 1 4061 3737.

(NX 4059 3737) Stones with Cup and Ring markings found (NAT)

OS 6" map (1909)

Cup and Ring marks, Glasserton: There are a number of ridges of outcropping rock running WSW-ENE between Broad Lane Wood and the Fall of Carleton. Towards the S end of one of the most easterly of those ridges, about 50 yds ENE of the gate, is a flat rock surface about 38' x 15' bearing a number of cup and ring marks.

RCAHMS 1912, visited 1911; R W B Morris and D C Bailey 1967

NX 4061 3737: At lest 20 cup and ring-marks and 2 single cups are visible. Turf probably covers more.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 18 January 1973

On this rock, last described by Morris (1979), two additional cup and rings could be detected; one cup and three complete rings (21cm) with a short tail to the SE; one cup and two complete rings. Two, possibly four, other cup and rings also have a tail. One of the cup and two rings seems to be without central cup: it either never existed or has worn off. (Cites location as NX 4058 3730)

M van Hoek 1987

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Field Visit (6 July 1911)

Cup and Ring Marks, Glasserton.

On the rough hill pasture between Broad Lane Wood, to the W. of Glasserton, and the base of the Fell of Carleton, are a number of ridges of outcropping rock lying parallel in a direction from WSW. to ENE. Towards the S. end of one of the most easterly of these ridges, some 50 yards or thereby ENE. of the E. side of the gate which gives access to the westmost of the cultivated fields at the base of the fell, is a flat rock surface measuring 38' in length by about 15' at its broader or WSW. end, and terminating in a point in the opposite direction. It has an elevation at its highest end of about 5', and has a round smooth surface sloping towards the SE. and ENE. On the broad end are a number of cup and ring markings (fig. 16).

O.S.M., WIGTOWN, xxxv. NW.

Visited 6th July 1911

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