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Latitude: 54.7972 / 54°47'49"N
Longitude: -4.3557 / 4°21'20"W
OS Eastings: 248655
OS Northings: 547247
OS Grid: NX486472
Mapcode National: GBR HJM0.TTS
Mapcode Global: WH3V8.2P38
Entry Name: Eggerness,carved stones 750m SW of
Scheduled Date: 22 May 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4678
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Crosses and carved stones: symbol stone; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring m
Location: Sorbie
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument consists of two rock outcrops, each decorated by carving. The first, which is located just outside the wall enclosing the improved field on the summit of Eggerness Hill at its W corner, has an incised design showing three deer, together with two or more cupmarks. The second, 60m SSE of the first, bears a number of small spiral designs and several cupmarks. The area to be scheduled at each location is a circular one, 10m in diameter, centred on the rock outcrop in each case, all as delineated on the attached plan.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as an exceptionally fine example of the type of stone normally referred to as Pictish, but here occurring in the extreme SW of Scotland. An analogy might be drawn to the ?Pictish? carving on Trusty?s Hill, Gatehouse-of-Fleet. Also of importance is the occurrence in close proximity of what must on analogy be Dark Age symbols and what would in isolation be thought of as later Neolithic or Bronze Age symbols.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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