Stonefield, Hosh, Crieff, Perthshire

Cup-Marked Stone:  OS Grid Reference – NN 8515 2484

Archaeology & History

Site of supposed cupmark

There’s little to see here.  In the 1990s, students from the Royal Commission found what they described as “a single cupmark”, 3 inches across by 1 inch deep, on a rock measuring 2-feet by 1½ feet, on the north side of this large (seemingly) natural mound with large scatters of field clearance stones all over its northern face.   When I visited the place yesterday (on my way to see the impressive Stonefield monolith 260 yards to the north-east), I zigzagged back and forth over the rocky mound and was unable to find it, although it may have been beneath the summer vegetation.  A winter visit may prove more fruitful.

© Paul BennettThe Northern Antiquarian

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