Scheduled Monument
Eggerness,carved stones 750m SW ofSM4678
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 22/05/1989
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 13/02/2020
- Type
- Crosses and carved stones: symbol stone, Prehistoric ritual and funerary: cupmarks or cup-and-ring marks and similar rock art
- Local Authority
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish
- Sorbie
- NGR
- NX 48655 47244
- Coordinates
- 248655, 547244
Description
The monument consists of two rock outcrops, each decorated by carving. The first, which is located just outside the wall enclosing the improved field on the summit of Eggerness Hill at its W corner, has an incised design showing three deer, together with two or more cupmarks. The second, 60m SSE of the first, bears a number of small spiral designs and several cupmarks. The area to be scheduled at each location is a circular one, 10m in diameter, centred on the rock outcrop in each case, all as delineated on the attached plan.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as an exceptionally fine example of the type of stone normally referred to as Pictish, but here occurring in the extreme SW of Scotland. An analogy might be drawn to the ?Pictish? carving on Trusty?s Hill, Gatehouse-of-Fleet. Also of importance is the occurrence in close proximity of what must on analogy be Dark Age symbols and what would in isolation be thought of as later Neolithic or Bronze Age symbols.
References
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