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MHG24821 - Cup and ring marked stone, Bailemore, (Milton of Balnapoul), Sluggan

Summary

A cup and ring marked stone at Bailemore, Sluggan.

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Cup-marked boulders. Recorded by Ann Wakeling 9/11/95. Located on her survey of Balnapoul settlement.

(A) This is at the grid ref. given (30 cup-marks)
HC Site visit record sheet:
Showed to Ann and Edwin Wakeling by Iain Bain 21/10/95.
On moderately steep slope on glacial terrace.
c.250m. OD Bearing to pylon 352 degrees - 124m, allowing for slope = 110m to wall. From 'rowan/pine tree rock' at village, bearing c. 256 degrees, c. 250m (not inter-visible)
Photos 9512/28/30/31/32
Sketch in Assoc. Docs.

(B) Earthfast erratic schist boulder - 37 cup-marks on top surface. 3.8m N-S; 1.5m E-W. 0.4m high (west / uphill side). 0.8m high (downhill / east side).

(C) Erratic schist boulder - 7 cup-marks on top surface. 2.2m NW-SE; 1.0m NE-SW. 0.8m high at E,. End. 0.6m high on S. side. W end adjoins field wall of small paddock beside 'house 2' on Balnapoul survey.

(D) Rock outcrop - schist. 21 cup-marks on southern third. 4.3m E-W. Approx 1.3m N-S (sloping off to ground on south). E end 1.3m high; W end ground level. Between houses 1 and 2 on survey.

(E) Schist rock - 1 cup-mark. Beside house 17 on survey.

References:

Rev. W. Forsyth, In the Shadow of Cairngorm, p.46
Affleck Gray, Legends of the Cairngorms, p.129
Gillies Lobban, 'Notes by One Who First Saw the Light of Day at Milton of Kincardine, 1892', TGSI 55.

Further details from Ann Wakeling, Librarian, Aviemore Library.

There is a boulder with a number of cup-markings on its upper surface, situated on a moderately steep NNW-facing slope. <1>

This panel was recorded as part of the ScRAP (Scotland’s Rock Art project) by members of NoSAS in November 2020. The panel overlooks the broad flat valley of the River Spey, from about 50m up a steep north facing slope, on a slight spur. It is situated in moorland in an area with sparse birch trees, and thickets of juniper and broom. The more open areas are largely covered in bracken.

The panel is a large boulder of brown gritty psammite, 4.5m x 3.5m and 2.6m high at the north end. The motifs are all on the top surface of the rock, which has a north-south cleavage, and some of them are in rows reflecting the rock structure. A section of the rock at the east is separated from the main rock by a deep fissure, and has 9 cups, 7 of which are joined. The main (west) part of the panel has 20 single cups, a dumbell, a groove, a cup-and-groove motif which respect the 'grain' of the rock, and one prominent cup-and-groove motif which cuts across it. When located, the whole boulder was thickly covered in mosses and lichens of various sorts. The sloping area at the west was carefully examined and no motifs found, and the area was not cleared. <2>

NGR adjusted based on 2020 vertical aerial photographs. <3>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 9312 1435 (10m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH91SW
Civil Parish	ABERNETHY AND KINCARDINE
Geographical Area	BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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