What is recorded here

Hand-hollow cups and thin rings are cut into a fractured sandstone slab in Letter West, facing south above the Behy valley. The marks are small enough to trace with a fingertip yet old enough to belong before written memory. A person may have knelt here in rain, pressing a cup into stone while mountains watched. The valley still opens beside the slab, giving the forgotten gesture a direction.

In mountain heath and cutaway bog (168m OD), on a NE-facing slope. Good views of Behy river valley to NE with Seefin and Droum Mountains in background. A slightly rough to very rough and fractured, large sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 1.92m N-S; 2.95m E-W; H 0.55m at N) which is subrectangular in plan. It has an irregular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 1.3m N-S; 0.85m E-W) with a S-facing aspect. The decorative elements consist of a large cup-and-two-ring motif (total diam. 22cm) having a pronounced cupmark (diam. 6.5cm; D 8mm) and rings (Wth 2cm; D 2-3mm) which are quite faint. A cup-and-one-ring motif (total diam. 15cm) having a deep cupmark (diam. 6.5cm; D 11mm) and faint ring (Wth 1.5-2cm; D 2mm) is adjacent to W; Two cupmarks (diam. 4cm; D 3mm) are to NW and SW. A second cup-and-one-ring motif of similar size and form is further to S, at edge of rock surface. A separate flat stone bearing a single, oval cupmark (dims. 5cm x 6cm; D 8mm) is located c. 0.7m to WNW. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 26 January 2018

Likely dating to the Neolithic or Bronze Age, this rock art may have had ritual or territorial significance, possibly linked to landscape features such as the Behy river valley and surrounding mountains. No specific folklore is recorded for the site.

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