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Rock ArtSite Name: BlacktopCountry: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Aberdeen Nearest Village: Bieldside
Map Ref: NJ85900455
Latitude: 57.131646N Longitude: 2.234558W
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 / Rock Art in Aberdeenshire
This cup marked boulder sits some 20m in front of the new farmhouse to the west of the approach road. The cup marks are barely distinguishable although there are many as 36 of them. Seven are reportedly surrounded by ring marks but I failed to spot any.
Ritchie, J (1918 )
'Cup-marks on the stone circles and standing-stones of Aberdeenshire and part of Banffshire',
Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 52, 1917-18, 108-10
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