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Rock ArtSite Name: Dunstone Cup StoneCountry: England County: Devon Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Lower Dunstone
Map Ref: SX71677585
Latitude: 50.568263N Longitude: 3.813454W
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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Information about this cup marked boulder, the Dunstone Cup Stone, comes from the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website. Their notes tell us this is a "cup-marked stone at SX71677585, Dunstone. Dunstone Rock is a large, weathered undressed granite boulder aligned approximately due North-South. It is 2.4m long by 1.4m wide and 1.0m high. The surface has 13 cups which fall into two groups. Although some of the cups may be natural, Dunstone manor takes its name from this stone and is recorded in Domesday as "Dunestonetuna" suggesting a long tradition of importance attached to the stone. A tradition of paying rent money by placing money in the cups is recorded until recent times."
The PDW web page gives links to further information on Pastscape, Monument Number 898192 and also the Heritage Gateway for Devon & Dartmoor HER number MDV18864. They date this boulder to the Prehistoric (698000BC to 42AD) and note that the stone is on the green at Lower Dunstone. In 1989 they recorded in a gazetteer that this "is a boulder with ring decoration and no central cups, minimum age 1900-1600BC (uncalibrated radiocarbon years).
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