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Jolly discovered five cup marks on the
stones at Culdoich and described them in his survey of the "cup-marked stones in
the neighbourhood of Inverness"
(1).
He also produced
illustrations of two of the decorated stones.
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| Outer face of surviving circle stone. | Outer face of kerb stone in SE quadrant of outer ring. | ||
There was only one monolith of the outer
stone circle remaining during Jolly's visit, but this was "a splendid slab of
red sandstone, 11 feet 8 inches in height above
ground, and 9 1/2 inches in greatest breadth." He found two cup marks on
this stone, low down on the outer face. Unfortunately, this stone, which was
leaning precariously
for many years, fell outwards in 1982 onto the decorated face, so these cup marks
are currently inaccessible.
The second stone he illustrated is in the
outer ring of kerbs at the SE, again, the outer face, which would have been
visible when the cairn was intact, is the decorated
surface.
Click images below for high resolution pictures.
This is our photo of the cup marked stone
(ringed) showing an arc of inner kerbs stones behind.
(Ranging pole 2m at True South)
Here is a close-up of the two cup marks.
The kerbs are currently buried for much of their height, and
unfortunately only the tops of the two cups are exposed.
We could not find the other decorated stone
Jolly described, "The second stone in this circle, nearly opposite this one,
contains only one cup", but given the current limited exposure of the kerb
surfaces, this is not surprising.
As usual, our sincere thanks to the Society for allowing use of material from its most excellent Proceedings.