What is recorded here

Letter West holds a triangular sandstone slab where five cupmarks join a straight groove in a right angle. The marks are faint, but they still cut through mountain heath and cutaway bog. They may have measured distance, marked ownership or directed prayer across the Behy valley.

In mountain heath and cutaway bog (163m OD), on a gentle NE-facing slope, c. 2.8m to ENE of rock art (KE071-172----); Pre-bog field wall is c. 3.5m to N. Good views of Behy river valley to NE with Seefin and Droum Mountains in background. A slightly rough and fractured, sandstone rock outcrop (dims. 2.05m NNE-SSW; 1.7m ESE-WNW; H 0.65m at SE) which is roughly triangular in plan. It has a subrectangular-shaped decorated surface (dims. 0.95m NNE-SSW; 0.7m ESE-WNW) with motifs upon the NW-facing aspect and top of rock. The motifs are faint and weathered, yet traceable. Most of the decorative elements are located upon the NW-facing aspect and consist of a picked linear groove (L 0.37m; Wth 1.5cm; D 2-3mm) across centre of decorated surface with off-shoots (also picked) to a cupmark (diam. 3cm; D 4mm) at top, middle and base; Two additional cupmarks (4.5cm; D 8mm) directly to E of uppermost and together the five total cupmarks form a right-angled arrangement in plan. A sixth cupmark (diam. 4.5cm; D 8mm) is upon top of stone. A dense cluster of faint pickmarks adjacent lower side of linear groove, to S. Other random pickmarks toward N area of stone. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 26 January 2018

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