What is recorded here

Rock art in Letter West carries cup marks and rings across a flat sandstone boulder overlooking the Behy river valley. The stone sits on a mountain heath slope beside a stream, exposing its markings to wind, water and foot traffic for generations. A broken fragment at the southern end still holds three cups, proving the surface once extended further before fracture and time removed the rest.

In mountain heath (173m OD), on a NE-facing slope, upon a conspicuous boulder overhanging stream, which is 0.6m to NE. Good views of Behy river valley to NE with Seefin and Droum Mountains in background. A slightly rough and fractured sandstone rock (dims. 4.42m N-S; 1.6m E-W; H 1.6m at NE) which is subrectangular in plan. It has a generally flat decorated surface (dims. 3.05m N-S; 0.55m E-W) with a gentle S-facing slope at S end. A cup-and-one-ring motif (total diam. 14cm) having a cupmark (diam. 6cm; D 5mm) and ring (Wth 1.5cm; D 2mm) is off-centre to N; Three cupmarks (average diam. 5.5cm; D 5mm) are close to NE, E and S. Two small, isolated cupmarks are further to NW and to S, near a fracture (long-axis ENE-WSW) across stone. A second cup-and-one-ring motif of similar dimensions is located at S end of decorated surface; two cupmarks are adjacent to SW. A small portion of rock at S end, has fractured away from main portion and bears three cupmarks (diam. 5cm; D 8mm). A flat stone with approximately five very weathered, possible cupmarks is c. 18m to NNW. Duplicate site with KE071-138---- Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 25 January 2018

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art may have held symbolic or ritual significance, possibly linked to landscape features or territorial markers. No specific folklore is recorded for this site.

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