Monument record MHG2693 - Cup Marked Stone, Fuaranbuie
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 4664 3993 (10m by 10m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH43NE |
| Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | KILTARLITY AND CONVINTH |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Full Description
A cup-marked stone, known locally as the "Nine-holed Stone' lies on the ridge near the farm of Fuaranbuie. It bears at least nine cups in a close group at one end of the stone, two pairs of which are united by grooves. They are carved on the surface of a bluish, fine-grained hard horneblende slab, lying flat on the ground and partly imbedded.
W Jolly 1882
This cup-marked stone,located in an arable field at NH 4665 39941, is still known locally as the 'Nine Holed Stone'. It measures 1.4 metres by 1.5metres by 0.3 metres high, and the nine cup marks very in size from 1 1/2" in diam. by 1/2" deep to 2" in diam. by 3/4" deep. No trace of any grooves joining any pair of cup-marks could be seen.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 14 December 1964
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SHG1317 Text/Publication/Article: Jolly, W. 1882. On cup-marked stones in the neighbourhood of Inverness; with an appendix on cup-marked stones in the Western Islands. Proc Soc Antiq Scot Volume 16. 300-401. 349-50; fig. 53.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM
