What is recorded here

Sixteen cupmarks still hold their shape on the tomb capstone, cut deep enough in the largest to reach three centimetres beneath its smooth sandstone surface. They sit in a narrow band across the middle of the stone, surrounded by scrub and plantation rather than open sky. The tomb has tilted slightly beside them, yet the marks have kept their number and clarity through whatever age brought them into being.

In an area of scrub enclosed by forestry plantation (281m OD), on a plateau area of a SW-facing slope. Limited views in all directions due to forestry. A laneway (long-axis NW-SE) is c. 2.2m to W, forestry is c. 6m to SW and also c. 20m N->-E->S. A series of sixteen well-preserved cupmarks are situated upon the capstone of a megalithic tomb (CO093-019----). It is a smooth and unfractured sandstone (dims. 1.63m N-S; 1.47m E-W; T 0.18m) being rectangular in plan. The decorated surface (dims. 1.0m N-S; 0.9m E-W) is subrectangular in plan and occupies the central portion of the capstone. The cupmarks have a range of sizes from the smallest (diam. 4.5cm; D 6mm) to the largest cupmark (diam. 9cm; D 30mm). The capstone has a NE-facing aspect, however, it is tending slightly to SE due to a side stone of the megalithic tomb, which has tilted inwards under the pressure of the capstone. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 13 July 2017

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