Region : Strathclyde District : Argyll & Bute Town or village : Cairnbaan Grid Reference : NR 838 910 Period : 3rd-2nd millennium BC Cairnbaan CUP-AND-RING MARKINGS

Two groups of decorated rock outcrops on high ground north of Cairnbaan. They are decorated with a profusion of cupmarks, cup-and-ring markings and several lengths of grooving. The photo shows the westernmost rock-sheet of the site. The most distinctive decoration of this rock-sheet is a series of conjoined multiple-ringed cups. Another unusual mark is a broad cup surrounded by a single ring which is linked to the cup by a series of rays. On the largest rock-sheet of the other group of decorated outcrops, 100m to the east, there are at least 60 plain cupmarks, some cup-and-ring markings and long gutters that run from seven of the cups at the south end of the rock. In care of Historic Scotland

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