Cochno stone
The Cochno Stone (also called Whitehill 1 or "the Druid Stone") is a Bronze Age , cup-and-ring-marked rock near Cochno Farm in Auchnacraig, north of Faifley, in West Dunbartonshire , Scotland .
The approximately 13.0 m long and 7.9 m wide stone (the largest petroglyph stone in Scotland) was discovered in 1887 by the Reverend James Harvey. It has about 90 rock carvings that are among the most beautiful petroglyphs in Scotland.
It was buried in the 1960s to protect the relatively soft stone from vandalism. In 2015 he underwent a three-day examination by a team from the University of Glasgow. His exhibition followed a year later.
literature
- James Harvey: Notes on some undescribed cup-marked rocks at Duntocher, Dumbartonshire. Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol. 23, 1888-9. Pp. 130-5
- Euan Wallace MacKie and A. Davis: New light on Neolithic rock carving. The petroglyphs at Greenland (Auchentorlie), Dumbartonshire. Glasgow Archaeol J, Vol. 15 1991 pp. 127-129
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Coordinates: 55 ° 55 '57.3 " N , 4 ° 23' 53.2" W.