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Rock ArtSite Name: Glencorse Cup and Ring Marked StoneCountry: Scotland County: Midlothian Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Penicuik
Map Ref: NT24676261
Latitude: 55.850784N Longitude: 3.204772W
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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Anne T visited on 15th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5 Glencorse Cup and Ring Marked Stone: Just outside the tall, imposing (and locked) Parish Church, which had an amazing old tree in the field opposite, and a long layby; this village is obviously popular with walkers, as there were lots of cars parked around here, and footpaths leading through the woods, away from the church.
This poor cup and ring stone is contained behind railings, so it looked as if the stone had been caged. The lichen and moss growing on it made it a little difficult to pick out the cups (we certainly couldn’t count 22), and we saw a couple of cup and ring motifs. Even trying to view the stone from different angles, to try and highlight the cups, didn’t make it any easier. A brush and a bottle of water would have come in useful.
I was much amused by the ‘reserved’ signs next to the stone, as if the minister and church warden might have had cars with specially shaped bonnets to fit neatly around the ‘railing cage’.
We did try the church door, just in case, but like many of these churches, locked and bolted. This church had the most amazing number of floodlights around it, so it must have been well lit in the dark.
RWB Morris identified 5 cup and ring marks of some 6 inches in diameter, each having a radial groove, and a further 22 cups. ('The cup-and-ring marks and similar sculptures in Scotland: a survey of the southern Counties, part II', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 100, 1967-8, p 71).
The Canmore database of the RCAHMS (NT26SW 18) states that ‘the stone is reported to have been found on the hill above the old parish church (NT24526303)’. It adds that there is said to have been a second cup and ring marked stone at the old parish church, but this is now lost. See Canmore ID 51869 for more information.
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