What is recorded here

Bartragh Island holds a small pyramidal boulder embedded in the grassy top of an ancient mound, where a tiny hollow marks its western face. Whether human hands or water carved that hollow remains unknown, but the stone still stands as a quiet witness to lives that vanished before written history.

Located on top of a mound barrow (MA022-118001-), at the S end of Bartragh Island. A small boulder is embedded in the sod surface on the W half of the flat top of the barrow. At its base the stone appears more or less circular (diam. c. 0.35m) in plan but the sides rise to a low rounded peak (H 0.2m) giving it an overall roughly pyramidal form, with rounded rather than angular corners. On the W face of the stone there is a small circular hollow or cupmark (diam. 0.03; D 0.01); it is not clear whether this feature is natural or artificial. Compiled by: Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 19 September 2012

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, the rock art may have had ritual or symbolic significance, possibly linked to the mound barrow as a funerary or ceremonial site. No specific folklore is recorded for this location.

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