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Rock ArtSite Name: Drumfad Cup & Ring Marked Rock Alternative Name: Glennan Burn cup-marked stoneCountry: Scotland
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County: East Dunbartonshire Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Helensburgh Nearest Village: Rhu
Map Ref: NS29058457
Latitude: 56.023449N Longitude: 4.74455W
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 |
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DJCM visited on 22nd Apr 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 4 A visit after climbing the Fruin from Helensburgh, taking the 3 Lochs Way path through to the footbridge then following a good track north to the stone. An impressive feature, unfortunately broken into 4 pieces but that also gives it a certain charm. Local graffiti is disappointing to see, plenty of cup marks though, harder to make out rings. It's not in the best position, under power lines with trees around most of it but I imagine the spot was more impressive back in the day, still well worth a visit.
Situated at an altitude of c.450ft above sea level; a hundred yards SE of the gate on the "Highlandman's Road"; a short distance east of the upper part of Ardencaple Wood; and close to the Glennan Burn..
A D Lacaille 1924
NS 2905 8456. A boulder, measuring c.5m by 3m by 1.4m high, now broken into four irregular parts. The stone is much weathered and moss grown, but a number of cupmarks, 1 ins, in diameter by 1/2 in deep, are visible.
Visited by OS (DS) 25 September 1956
This boulder is generally as described above. Roughly a dozen small cup-marks are visible, one of which a trial drill-hole. No traces of any rings were noted; there are other (modern) markings on the boulder. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 15 January 1963
Field Visit (2016)
NS 29599 84566 A prominent boulder marked with cup and rings was surveyed by Lacaille in 1924 when he recorded 57 cups with at least 8 rings. The present survey only detected 35 cups, 3 with single rings, and 2 with the remains of double and triple rings respectively. Modern graffiti was also recorded. The attrition of the stone is due to weathering and the effects of people walking on its surface. A limited excavation was carried out around the stone and a fractured part of it was returned to its proper position. The society has placed an interpretative panel beside the stone to explain its presence and hopefully to deter any further climbing upon it.
Report: NRHE, WoSAS and on http://www.spanglefish.com/NorthClydeArchaeologicalSociety/
Links to other websites with details on the Drumfad stone:
canmore.org.uk/site/41455/drumfad
http://www.geograph.ie/snippet/326
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/18978/drumfad
destinationhelensburgh.org/drumfad-cup-ring-marked-rock/
Note: More about the eccentric archaeologist and antiquarian Ludovic Mann in the comments
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