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MHG63169 - Cup marked stone - Dun Creagach (3)

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A cup marked stone at Dun Creagach.

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This panel was recorded as part of the ScRAP (Scotland’s Rock Art project) by members of NoSAS in September 2020. The panel lies in bracken and moorland on the NNE facing slope of a low knoll on the southeast side of Loch Naver and the northwest slopes of Ben Klebreck. It is one of many boulders scattered across the slope. To the southeast (about 50m) there is a degraded hut circle, visible as a scatter of boulders with the northwest arc now below the turf.

This is is a large irregularly shaped boulder measuring 2.50m northwest-southeast by 1.40m and rising to a maximum height of 0.3m. The surface of the boulder is covered with natural pits and hollows but at the eastnortheast side there is a series of 14 rings with pronounced upstanding 'boss-like' centres, some with central cups or short linear grooves. There are a few deep circular hollows with flattish bases as if some rock material had been removed. Some of the rings are on the side of the boulder others along the top surface, and 1 partial ring on the north edge. There are 4 possible small cups and some short linear grooves on the top of the boulder. It is not certain that any of these markings are rock art, and the ring shapes are more characteristic of miniature and/or medieval 'pot querns'.

NGR adjusted based on 2020 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6008 3471 (8m by 8m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH63SW
Civil Parish	DORES
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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