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Cochno Stone is a cup and ring marked rock surface located in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, approximately 115 metres southwest of Silver Firs. The stone bears Bronze Age rock art in the form of cup marks and ring marks, motifs commonly found across Britain and beyond during the prehistoric period. Cup and ring marked stones remain among the most enigmatic expressions of Neolithic and Bronze Age artistic or ritual activity, their precise purpose and meaning still debated by scholars. The Cochno Stone exemplifies the tradition of such marking and contributes to the broader understanding of prehistoric rock art distribution and cultural practices in Scotland.
Cochno, cup and ring marked stone 115m SW of Silver Firs is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM716. View the official record →
Cochno Stone is a cup and ring marked rock surface located in Dunbartonshire, Scotland, approximately 115 metres southwest of Silver Firs. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM716.
Cochno, cup and ring marked stone 115m SW of Silver Firs 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 SM716.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Antonine Wall and fortlet, 950m W to 335m ENE of Cleddens (1.7 km), Forth and Clyde Canal: Old Kilpatrick - Linnvale (3.4 km), Forth and Clyde Canal: Linnvale - Duntreath Avenue (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cochno, cup and ring marked stone 115m SW of Silver Firs's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cochno, cup and ring marked stone 115m SW of Silver Firs stands on Strathclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, strathclyde group type.