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Rock ArtSite Name: FaddochCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 13.39 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Highlands Type: Rock Art
Nearest Village: Killilan
Map Ref: NG95452863
Latitude: 57.302283N Longitude: 5.397139W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Cup marked boulder on a rise above the clachan of Faddoch. The boulder is lozenge shaped, some 8 feet by 6 feet 6 inches, with its main cup marked surface facing SE. There are about twenty shallow cup-marks, some conjoined, of 2 to 2 ½ inches in diameter. The boulder contains a considerable amount of quartz; this apparently inhibited the drilling of the cups, accounting for their exceptional shallowness.
The boulder is at an elevation of 112 feet on the highest point of a slope which rises steeply from the track at Faddoch to the east and falls gently in the other directions. The boulder at Camas Luinie is visible from that at Faddoch at an azimuth of 292°.
The site was noted by Thomas Wallace in 1897 (Wallace, T (1897) 'Notes of Antiquities in Loch Alsh and Kintail', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 31, 1896-7, p 87), who commented ‘In Glen Elchaig, at the head of Loch Long, there is one large boulder at Fadoch and another at Camus-liune (sic), on the opposite side of the river, covered with cups of the usual size and character, but no rings’. The OS failed to find the Faddoch boulder in 1966, commenting that ‘enquiries at Killilan and Faddoch proved negative’; apparently they did not undertake a ground survey (see Canmore NG92NE 1).
Tiompan, a contributor to the British Rock Art Collection, located the site in April 2007; and I tracked it down with the help of his photographs and advice from one of the estate workers.
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