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MHG14515 - Cup marked stone - Cairngorm Brewery, Aviemore

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A cup marked stone currently at Cairngorm Brewery, Aviemore having been moved from a local garden.

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Cup marked stone, now at Dave Holland's house, 10 Callart Road.
Derek Wakeling uncovered it in the rockery when working in the garden at Tighuish, Inverdruie, then occupied by Mrs Bartlet. (Anne Hedley's grand-mother.) ( c. 1965?) It was near the side gate. Before Mrs Bartlett lived there, Tighuish was occupied by an eccentric old man who had built the various extensions and the stone was possibly put there by him.
Derek got an expert who was up from Cambridge to look at it and take photos. A professor from Aberdeen came and took rubbings, and told him that A. Henshall had described a similar one being at the Aviemore Stone Circle. Derek was given permission to look after it, with written instructions for its care (now lost). When he left Aviemore (1977) it was moved to the Loch an Eilein visitor centre (N.C.C.) for 7 years but when use was changed to a shop it was thought it would be safer with Dave Holland, then an N.C.C. employee. The stone has 32 (or more) cupmarks. 10 Callart Road is approx NH 903 136.
It is also possible that the stone came from Carn-rhu-Aenachan, near the Croft (NH90NW). Macmillan (Rothiemurchus, 1907) makes reference to a 'half-hidden stone with three cupmarks rudely hollowed out …' (Full text in Ass. Docs.)
Information from Ann Wakeling, 8/12/99

This panel was recorded by members of NoSAS (Rock Art Group) in January 2024. The panel is currently set on edge with an explanatory plaque in the grass verge by the car park of the Cairngorm Brewery, in Aviemore. It is thought to have been discovered ‘in the rockery when working in the garden at Tighguish’, in about 1965. There is a ring cairn (Canmore ID 14927) about 600m from the present location which mentions a cup marked stone, of which there is no evidence today.

The panel is slab of coarse schist, 0.15m thick, extending about 0.75m above the current ground surface, and 0.9m wide. There are broken edges around much of the exposed part, evidently it is a piece of a larger panel. The carved surface has 25 cups and 2 pairs of joined cups. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 9013 1373 (10m by 10m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH91SW
Civil Parish	DUTHIL AND ROTHIEMURCHUS
Geographical Area	BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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