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Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich is a Bronze Age rock art panel and Iron Age settlement located in Perthshire, Scotland. The cup and ring carvings were pecked into the local bedrock of psammite and pelite belonging to the Southern Highland Group, a metamorphic sequence formed during the Middle Cambrian period. These distinctive motifs—cupules surrounded by concentric rings—are characteristic of Bronze Age rock art found across upland Britain, and their presence here indicates ritual or territorial activity in the landscape during the second millennium BC.
The Iron Age settlement comprises a dun, a small stone-built fort, and associated farmstead structures positioned 70 metres to the south-west of Brae of Cultullich. This combination of defensive and domestic architecture is typical of the first centuries BC and AD in northern Scotland, reflecting settled community life and territorial control during a period of increasing social stratification.
The monument is protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland's reference SM2669, recognising its archaeological significance as evidence of successive Bronze Age and Iron Age occupation in the Perthshire uplands.
Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2669. View the official record →
Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich is a Bronze Age rock art panel and Iron Age settlement located in Perthshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2669.
Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich dates from the iron age period, and is classified as a dun and farmstead 70m sw of brae of cultullich. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich 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 SM2669.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Dun,fort 400m ESE of Tyndun (2.3 km), Margmore, cup and ring marked rock 580m SSW of (3.7 km), Margmore, cup-marked rock 740m SSW of (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Cup and ring marked stone, dun and farmstead 70m SW of Brae of Cultullich stands on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is psammite and pelite.