What is recorded here
Castlecreavie 4 is a neolithic and Bronze Age cup marked stone in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Small hollows cut through rock that has stood since before written history. The cups may have marked territory, measured ceremony or simply amused the hand that struck them. Whatever they meant, the stone still holds the shape of that forgotten gesture.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castlecreavie 4 as Cup Marked Stone (neolithic) - (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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