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Rock ArtSite Name: Heatheryhaugh (Bendochy) Alternative Name: Mains of CreuchieCountry: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Blairgowrie Nearest Village: Tullymurdoch
Map Ref: NO1963951153
Latitude: 56.645264N Longitude: 3.312035W
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 cup and ring marked stone is recorded as Canmore ID 29141, which tells us this is: "A large glacial erratic boulder with ten cup marks scattered over its surface lies in a field one sixth of a mile SSE of the 'four poster' and ruined stone circle at Heatheryhaugh. The boulder is garnet-mica-schist and is 3m long, N S, by 2.70 wide, EW, with a circumference of 9m at ground level (1982)". This was updated in 1987 to read: "Situated in the SE corner of an arable field, there is a boulder (3m by 3m and 1.2m high) which bears on its sloping W face at least fifteen weathered cupmarks, two cups with single rings and one cup with a possible ring; the cupmarks average 50mm in diameter by 15mm in depth."
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for this stone - see their page forHeatheryhaugh, Bendochy, Perthshire, which gives directions for finding the site together with photographs, and a brief archaeology & history. TNA add: "But some of these ‘cups’ are, without doubt, geological in origin – and when ... I visited the stone in near perfect weather conditions, there was only one ring very faintly discernible, with a possible arc on the top-edge of another ‘cup’. You can see from a couple of the photos how some of the cupmarks are geophysical in nature. The cups with greater veracity were very probably etched from the natural cut in the stone."
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