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MHG63466 - Cup Marked Stone - Brae Of Revack (4)

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A cup marked stone at Brae Of Revack.

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NMRS Report: (21/02/2007 09:07:17)
NJ02SW 57 NJ 03631 24539

A series of cup markings is visible on a number of exposures of bedrock on the crest of a S-facing slope 315m N of the ruins of Brae of Revack farmsteading (NJ02SW 54). The main group of cup marks is situated on the top of a boss about 1m in height (NJ 03631 24539), and here there is a cluster of at least 23 cups measuring up to 80mm in diameter by 30mm in depth. There is evidence of small-scale quarrying immediately NE of the boss and the cup markings may once have been more extensive here. Twenty-six metres to the SE of the boss is another outcrop (NJ 03645 24514) bearing a small cluster of five cups, measuring up to 40mm in diameter by 10mm in depth. Three other cups are visible immediately to the E, whilst other, single, cups are visible elsewhere on the exposure. A third exposure of bedrock (NJ 03619 24518), which is situated 21m SW of the first, bears two cup marks on its highest part, the larger measuring 50mm in diameter by 10mm in depth.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 7 September 2006.

These panels were recorded but not visited as part of the ScRAP (Scotland’s Rock Art project) by members of NoSAS. <2>

This panel was visited and recorded by members of the NoSAS RAP (Rock Art Project) group in May 2024. This is one of a set of four panels, all located on slabby outcrops of bedrock. The natural fabric of the rock (psammite) slopes at about 30 degrees to the south. The panels are in rough ground near the top of a sloping field, with an open aspect to the south down over farmed land to the former settlement of Brae of Revack, the Auchernack Burn, and beyond.

The panel is on psammite bedrock under turf about 3m to the west of panel 3. The exposed area is about 1.8m by 1.5m. There are 17 cups spaced along the exposed area of rock. Two cups are to the north of a band of quartz where the rock is level; the remainder are to the south and sloping at about 30 degrees to the south. The two cups at the east end of the exposure extend into grooves in the rock. <3>

NGR adjusted based on 2021 vertical aerial photographs. <4>

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Grid reference	Centred NJ 0361 2451 (9m by 9m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NJ02SW
Civil Parish	ABERNETHY AND KINCARDINE
Geographical Area	BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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