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Submitted by austenjohnreid on Wednesday, 01 September 2010  Page Views: 9309

Rock ArtSite Name: Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone
Country: Scotland County: South Lanarkshire Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Carnwath  Nearest Village: Dunsyre
Map Ref: NT084488
Latitude: 55.723923N  Longitude: 3.459908W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone
Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone submitted by austenjohnreid : Site in South Lanarkshire Scotland. 2L sainsbury sparkling ware bottle at side for scale. stone is 1 x 2 feet approx (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cup and Ring marks in South Lanarkshire. A new find by myself. This stone has been moved from its original place and ended up being built into a dyke.

There are several cairns around the area it was found.

Note: We reported this in May, now Biggar Archaeology Group have some more background on this discovery
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Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone
Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone submitted by austenjohnreid : broken but not as bad as it could have been. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone
Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone submitted by austenjohnreid : Site in South Lanarkshire Scotland (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone by austenjohnreid on Wednesday, 02 May 2018
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Here is the link for the archaeology report
http://docplayer.net/39571459-Discovery-of-a-cup-and-ring-marked-stone-from-south-lanarkshire-june-2010.html
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Re: Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 March 2013
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Biggar Archaeology have now turned this discovery into a PDF report
http://www.biggararchaeology.org.uk/pdf_reports/BAG_CUPRING_STONE_FINAL.pdf
(Thanks for the credit in there folks)
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Cup and ring marked stone discovered by Andy B on Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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As reported here in May, Biggar Archaeology Group have some more on this discovery:

While Austin John Reid, a dyker from Peebles was rebuilding drystane dykes on Easton Farm, near Dunsyre in South Lanarkshire in June 2010, he recognised a stone slab decorated with cup and ring marks.

Mr Reid posted a photo of the stone on a web site; The Megalithic Portal, and I was informed of this by one of the local archaeology volunteers. Contact was soon made and the stone was handed in to me for reporting and for the purpose of Treasure Trove consideration, which has been done.
The stone

The stone is pink coloured and is a slab of Old Red Sandstone. It measures overall 600mm long by 330mm wide by 90mm thick

The design consists of a clear but incomplete cup and ring motive and two further cups which form a straight line with the central cup of the main design.

The end cup measures 60mm in diameter by about 12mm deep, but the detail of this side of the stone has been eroded. The central (single) cup is 50mm in diameter by 20mm deep, the gap between the two cups is 50mm.

The main design consists of a cup 45mm in diameter by 20mm deep, it is centrally positioned within four rings, the outer one forming a c150mm radius from the centre of the cup. Each ring is c10mm wide by c8mm deep and about 50% of the rings are missing on one side.
Full decoration

Full decoration on stone and View showing fresh break along edge
View showing staining where exposed on dyke

View showing staining where exposed on dyke and Worn edge surface on left, fresh surface in middle

The original condition of the carvings can now only be conjectural but they were probably much better defined than they now are.

What is obvious both from the condition of the stone and the organic growth which covered part of it, is that it has been eroded at both ends since its use in a drystane dyke some time in the 19th century. Each end, including the end cup and part of the cup and rings can be seen to have been eroded, while the middle of the stone for about 350mm can be seen to have more fresh surfaces, also the featureless back of the stone is also fresh. This implies that the stone was part of a larger slab and which may have been broken, intentionally or otherwise, for use in the dyke.

This discovery is the first of its type to be found in South Lanarkshire; in fact the nearest examples of cup and ring are from Wigtownshire (Stell 1986) where multiple examples are carved into more intractable greywacke rock than the Dunsyre sandstone. In South Lanarkshire, only two examples of pre-historic rock art have previously been discovered; one of these is fairly local to the present find, being only 8km to the west at Wester Yardhouses Farm, Carnwath. The two carved stones (from Carnwath and Dunsyre) mark the west and east ends of one of Scotland’s most prolific concentrations of pre-historic monuments and sites (RCAHMS, 1978) and which date from the Mesolithic through the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods (Clarke, 1989).

The Wester Yardhouses stone is decorated with spirals and pecked triangles and was found as the capstone of a Bronze Age cist within which a beaker was found. This stone is from the Neolithic period judging by the design and the fact that the stone appeared to have been re-used for a capstone. The other stone was similarly found as a re-used Neolithic decorated stone, again for a Bronze Age cist, and this was at Ferniegair near Hamilton. The Ferniegair stone is carved on its sides with concentric circles, spiral and linear designs, and the suggestion is that this stone was set up as a free standing monument. Therefore the Dunsyre stone remains unique as the only true cup and ring marked stone from the County.

Nearby in Peeblesshire there are four recorded examples of rock art, only one of which is a cup and ring stone. This has three rings around a cup an

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Re: Dunsyre cup and ring marked stone by Anonymous on Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Nice one John! Looks a decent little carving - typical of summat that you'd find associated with burial cairns. Is the area here intensively farmed, or do you reckon there might be more of the little fellas hiding around nearby?

Keep up the good work!

All the best - Paul
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