© Mapbox · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Boundary data © DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR)
Cup-and-ring-marked stone is a Bronze Age rock carving located in County Down, Northern Ireland. The monument consists of a stone surface decorated with a series of cup marks—small, roughly circular depressions—and concentric ring motifs pecked into the rock face, a characteristic form of prehistoric rock art found across Britain and Ireland during the Bronze Age. Such carvings remain poorly understood in terms of their precise function and meaning, though they are widely recognised as significant expressions of Bronze Age symbolic and ritual activity. The stone's location in Down places it within a broader distribution of cup-and-ring marked stones across the island of Ireland, contributing to our understanding of Bronze Age artistic and cultural practices in the Irish context.
Cup-&-ring-marked stone is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 7883. View the official record →
Cup-and-ring-marked stone is a Bronze Age rock carving located in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 7883.
Cup-&-ring-marked stone dates from the bronze age period, and is classified as a cup-&-ring-marked stone. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cup-&-ring-marked stone is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 7883.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tower-house (7.8 km), Corbelled pig crew (8.3 km), Souterrain (8.5 km).
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any address in the UK — drawing on scheduled monument data, Domesday records, Roman heritage, PAS finds and medieval history to reveal the complete story of a landscape.
Research the area around Cup-&-ring-marked stone