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Castleton Cup and Ring Marked Rocks is a Bronze Age rock art site located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. The carvings comprise cup marks and concentric ring motifs pecked into the natural bedrock outcrop. This form of abstract rock art is characteristic of the Bronze Age period across northern Britain, typically dating to around 2500–1500 BC. The site lies upon bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, Westphalian sedimentary formations that provide a relatively stable stone surface suitable for this type of artistic expression.
Cup and ring marked rocks served ritual, territorial or commemorative purposes within Bronze Age communities. The technique involved repeatedly striking the stone with a hard stone tool to create the distinctive hemispherical depressions, often surrounded by concentric circular grooves. These markings were sometimes pecked into single isolated boulders or, as at Castleton, into fixed rock outcrops that would have remained prominent landscape features across generations.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4381. The Castleton carvings contribute to the broader distribution of cup and ring rock art found across Stirlingshire and the surrounding regions, preserving evidence of Bronze Age cultural expression and land use in central Scotland.
Castleton,cup & ring marked rocks NW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4381. View the official record →
Castleton Cup and Ring Marked Rocks is a Bronze Age rock art site located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4381.
Castleton,cup & ring marked rocks NW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM4381.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Antonine Wall, 495m WSW and 125m SE of Bonnyside House (8.7 km), Station House, Roman temporary camp 200m SE of (8.7 km), Antonine Wall, 160m ENE to 155m NW of St Joseph's Church (8.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Castleton,cup & ring marked rocks NW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Castleton,cup & ring marked rocks NW of stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.