MHG2735 - Cup Marked Stone, Kineras Farm

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Type and Period (1)

  • CUP MARKED STONE (Neolithic to Late Bronze Age - 4000 BC to 551 BC)

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Full Description

There is a cup-marked stone a little to the south of the farm of Kineras. The stone is a slab of tough grey gneiss containing mica, with a rounded surface, lying flat on the ground and partly imbedded. It contains 43 distinct cups, three pairs of which are connected by grooves.
W Jolly 1882

This cup marked stone is at NH 46774007. It measures 1.5metres long by 1.1. metres broad and is as described by Jolly. The cup marks vary in size from 3" in diameter by 2" deep, to 1 1/2" in diameter by 3/4" deep, but there is now no trace of any pairs joined by grooves. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 18 December 1964

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 4676 4006 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH44SE
Civil Parish KILTARLITY AND CONVINTH
Geographical Area INVERNESS

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