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Clauchendolly is a cup and ring marked rock site in Kirkcudbrightshire, south-western Scotland. The monuments consist of bedrock surfaces incised with cupules and concentric ring patterns typical of prehistoric rock art, likely dating to the Bronze Age. The carvings remain visible on the Hawick Group wacke that forms the natural bedrock at this location, a greywacke formation laid down in the Wenlock period of the Silurian era, roughly 425 million years before the rock art itself was created.
Cup and ring marked rocks are among Scotland's most enigmatic Bronze Age monuments, their precise ritual or functional purpose unknown. The examples at Clauchendolly demonstrate the widespread distribution of this artistic tradition across the upland areas of south-western Scotland, where similar panels of carved rocks survive on suitable stone outcrops.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument under the care of Historic Environment Scotland, ensuring preservation of these striking examples of prehistoric artistic expression. The weathered wacke bedrock continues to reveal the careful work of Bronze Age craftspeople, their cupules and rings still discernible after more than three thousand years.
Clauchendolly, cup and ring marked rocks 350m WSW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM1013. View the official record →
Clauchendolly is a cup and ring marked rock site in Kirkcudbrightshire, south-western Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM1013.
Clauchendolly, cup and ring marked rocks 350m WSW 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 SM1013.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Doon Wood,fort,Nun Mill Bridge (2.2 km), Borness Batteries,fort (3.4 km), Muncraig Heugh,fort (4.1 km).
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Clauchendolly, cup and ring marked rocks 350m WSW of stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.