MHG44800 - Cup marked stone - Sheep pen, Loch Beinn Deirg

Summary

A cup marked stone at Loch Beinn Deirg.

Type and Period (1)

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

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NH19NE 2 1520 9986.

(NH 153998). Remains of rifled single-chamber cairn. One of the capping stones had a cup-mark c 1/2" across. It lies on a tongue of land, near water level, on the North side of the channel connecting Loch Dubh and Loch Beinn Deirg.
Information from C F Tebbutt to OS 1962

The upright stones, which are set in a rough ring about 5ft. in diameter, are not earthfast. The flat horizontal stones seem to be collapsed dry walling from between the 'orthostats'. There is a kind of entrance to the SE. I think the thing is of no great age, but purpose unknown... The whole affair is suspiciously small scale, with not a trace of cairn (which would be odd, as it is in a very remote place.) Information from A S Henshall to OS 16 April 1966

The remains of a small dry-stone circular structure c.2.0m in diameter at NH 1520 9986. Undoubtedly modern, probably a lambing pen.
Visited by OS (A A) 8 November 1974

This panel was recorded as part of the ScRAP (Scotland’s Rock Art project) by members of NoSAS but has yet to be visited. <1>

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 1519 9985 (10m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NH19NE
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish LOCHBROOM

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