Monument record MHG14515 - Cup marked stone

Cup marked stone, now at Dave Holland's house, 10 Callart Road.
Derek Wakeling uncovered it in the rockery when working in the garden at Tighuish, Inverdruie, then occupied by Mrs Bartlet. (Anne Hedley's grand-mother.) ( c. 1965?) It was near the side gate. Before Mrs Bartlett lived there, Tighuish was occupied by an eccentric old man who had built the various extensions and the stone was possibly put there by him.
Derek got an expert who was up from Cambridge to look at it and take photos. A professor from Aberdeen came and took rubbings, and told him that A. Henshall had described a similar one being at the Aviemore Stone Circle. Derek was given permission to look after it, with written instructions for its care (now lost). When he left Aviemore (1977) it was moved to the Loch an Eilein visitor centre (N.C.C.) for 7 years but when use was changed to a shop it was thought it would be safer with Dave Holland, then an N.C.C. employee. The stone has 32 (or more) cupmarks. 10 Callart Road is approx NH 903 136.
It is also possible that the stone came from Carn-rhu-Aenachan, near the Croft (NH90NW). Macmillan (Rothiemurchus, 1907) makes reference to a 'half-hidden stone with three cupmarks rudely hollowed out ...' (Full text in Ass. Docs.)
Information from Ann Wakeling, 8/12/99