Greenlee Lough (b); not a cup-marked stone as we know them as the E’most basin is a deep well-made water trough. The W’most basin is smaller, more crudely made and a curved groove join the two. The Beckensall Archive suggests that it may have had a prehistoric origin.
Greenlee Lough b; view to N over marshland due E of Greenlee Lough.
View over site of Greenlee Lough (a) cup-marked stone. A Roman fort extends from just beyond the rock up to the trees which overlook the Lough, and overlies the cord-rig of a prehistoric field-system, prominent in the foreground.
General view NNW along old boundary wall and by-way from Slaterfield Fell. The marked stones are probably from a cairn on the ridge between Castleburn and Hopeshield burns.
Stone b is visible in the foreground and stone a is also built into the old boundary 2m closer to the tree
Stone a with two cup marks and curved joining groove
Cup-marked stone b in its environment; view N along the old boundary into which the stones have been placed, possibly from a nearby cairn
View from S; boulder with the two multi-ring motifs is in the centre of the photo just above the field wall.
Triangular companion to the main panel. This has about 30 cups.
Although largely turf-covered, can this really be the rock described in the Beckensall Archive as a boulder with 16 cups? It has over 50. Does the archive panel lie elsewhere?
Stone-setting close to the sheepfold.
?Cist or ?sheep-dip close to the sheepfold looking over the site of the cup-marked rock.
Second cup-marked rock, just N of the first.
Cup-marked rock; showing extent of turf cover.
Cup-marked rock; view W to sheepfold. Grindon Wood in middle- and Sewing Shields in far-distance.
E’most round cairn; view to SE.
E’most round cairn above Settlingstones Burn; view NE towards Two Woods. One of the large boulders near its apex is highly eroded and may have had cup marks.
Named stones on southern flank of Ardfernal Hill – The Prayer Stone (’Clack-na-Urina’) and The Samson Stone (’Clach Samson’).
The Samson Stone (Clach Samson) – closeup of supposed ‘hand print’.
The Samson Stone (Clach Samson) – large stone on southern flankof Ardfernal Hill said to bear an impression of a man’s hand (visible top, centre) and legend that it was thrown from Argyll. View S to Craighouse.
E’most stone; now almost hidden in scrub. Ardfernal Hill is in the background.
View S towards the now renovated old Free Church at Leargybreck and the Small Isles.
Goatstones k; cup-marked boulder on E side of Ravensheugh Hill.
‘Perforated’-rock; view towards Hunterheugh Crags
Interesting new find at Hunterheugh: the ‘perforated’-rock. A multi-cupped slab between Hunterheugh 6 and the Crags.
