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AstroGeologist visited on 25th Mar 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 Craigston Wood Cup & Ring Marks : About 20m from the roadside, through the tree's is a special Sandstone outcrop. This outcrop contains carvings that are 3,500 ~ 4,000 years old. When we approached it l was a little disappointed, we couldn't see any Cup or Ring markings, the whole outcrop was totally covered in moss & dead leaves. I grabbed a broken branch from the ground and started clearing away leaves and vegetation from the surface, and we started noticing a couple of Cup Marks, so we started scooping out the debris from the depressions, and noticed Rings around these Cups. We traced out the wavy gutters in a line of moss running from the Cup & Rings. After much cleaning of leaves, moss and dirt, we had a rough shape of 3 Cup & Rings, forming a Triangular shape, all 3 were connected. The one at the top right had a line connecting it to the one at the top left, which had a wavy line running downwards to the bottom Cup & Ring of the triangular arrangment, which in turn had a wavy groove running down to a crack in the rock. This crack in the rock seems to be natural, although it may have been deepened and widened by the creators of the Cup & Rings. We noticed a Couple of likely Cup Marks above this triangular formation, so we cleaned them out and found these were also full Cup & Ring Marks. These must be the 5 as documented by J. Kirkwood in 1938 and by OS (WDJ) on 25 November 1964. Previously Documented Records : 1. J. Kirkwood (1938) ; 5 Cup & Rings 2. OS 1:2500 (1964) ; 5 Cup & Rings 3. R.W.B Morris & D.C Baily in (1967) ; 4 Cup & Rings 4. OS 1:10000 (1973) ; No Mention 5. RCAMHMS (1985) ; No Mention Site visits ; 1. 25/03/2019 2. 12/04/2019 *Getting There ; Around a 15~20 minute walk from Johnstone train station. Come out the station and take a right onto Thorn Brae, walk East up Thorn Hill and take your third right down Kings Road. Walk up Kings Road for 440m and take a left when you reach Auchenlodment Road, follow this road for 470m until you reach the end of the housing. Walk up the country road for 300m and you will come to a bend in the road, walk up the bend in the hill for a further 250m and you will see some trees to your right, this is Craigston Woods.

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