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Rock ArtSite Name: Grange 3 (Dumfries and Galloway)Country: Scotland County: Dumfries and Galloway Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Kirkcudbright Nearest Village: Townhead
Map Ref: NX6883947526
Latitude: 54.805393N Longitude: 4.042143W
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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This prehistoric cup and ring marked rock is on Dam Park Grange private land, please contact me should you wish to visit this site.
This rock with its special motif based around four tear drop cups linked and surrounded by rings is recorded as Canmore ID 63889.
Nearby are some other cup and ring mark rocks - see Canmore ID 63889 which tells us these panels are "located 260 metres west south west of the road and 9 metres north east of the south west hedge of the second field south the Grange"
The latter Canmore entry tells us that in 1979, six carved outcrop sheets had been discovered: " (a) has four cups-and-one-gapped-ring; at least one has a radial groove from its cup; also twelve cups. (b) has a cup-and-one-ring, also a single cup. (c) has two cups-and-one-gapped-ring, three cups in a broken-off oval 29cm by 14cm, and five cups. (d) has two cups-and-one-ring. (e) has four cups-and-one-gapped-ring, two with a radial groove from the cup, also another four cups. (f), not visible in 1969-76 and probably turfed over, 'on the summit rock' has four cups-and-one-incomplete-ring, two cups inside an oval, with a third cup as 'runner' in the groove, two long grooves and twelve cups. A further rock, NW of the others, bears a single cupmark."
In 1989 a further panel was discovered between outcrops a-e and f.
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