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Latitude: 56.1795 / 56°10'46"N
Longitude: -5.4376 / 5°26'15"W
OS Eastings: 186740
OS Northings: 703863
OS Grid: NM867038
Mapcode National: GBR DDYC.XSB
Mapcode Global: WH0HK.FYX2
Entry Name: Ford,cupmarked rock,130m NNW of Forestry Houses
Scheduled Date: 6 August 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5709
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art
Location: Kilmartin
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Mid Argyll
Traditional County: Argyllshire
This cupmarked rock is situated on the SSW end of a rock outcrop which is immediately accessible from a forestry track, although located within a plantation.
The rock outcrop measures 22m from NNE to SSW by 5.5m transversely. At its SSW end are two cupmarks surrounded by two and three rings respectively. Most of the rock outcrop is covered with moss and vegetation, which probably obscure further examples. Reports in the early 1960s stated that cup and cup-and-ring markings extend over the entire surface of the rock outcrop, in two main groups.
The area to be scheduled is approximately rectangular on plan and measures 40m from NNE to SSW by 45m transversely to include the rock outcrop and an area to the S of the forestry track in which traces of associated remains may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as one of a group of rock carvings in the vicinity of Ford and as a part of a concentration of similar and related monuments in the area of Kilmartin which are of national and international importance for their potential to provide information about Neolithic and Bronze Age social and ritual practice.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NM 80 SE 24.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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