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Rock ArtSite Name: Balvraid Farm Cup Marked StoneCountry: Scotland County: Highlands Type: Rock Art
Nearest Village: Glenelg
Map Ref: NG84081667
Latitude: 57.189823N Longitude: 5.575062W
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 and Ring marks in the Highlands. A cup marked stone slab, 3feet 9 inches long and 2 feet wide, found in 1881 on a pile of rocks on a small rise in the middle of a field between the road and the river near Balvraid in Glen Beag, Glenelg (NG 84081667).
There are some 30 cup marks, many partially obscured by moss, and two connected by a groove. It is likely that the stones were cleared from the field, and the cup marked slab is unlikely to be in its original position.
J Romilly Allen, who visited the site in 1882, was told by the local farmer that the cup-marks were well known to the natives of the Glen, and were known locally as " Fairies' Footmarks. (See Allen, J R (1882 ) 'Notes on some undescribed stones with cup markings in Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 16, 1881-2, 119-20.)
The site appears in the Canmore database as NG81NW 2
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