High banks
High Banks is an approximately 30.0 m long rock outcrop near Mutehill south of Kirkcudbright in the Unitary Authority Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland .
Here groups are of bowls ( English cups ) of cup-and-ring markings are surrounded, of which the largest 45 cm diameter.
The Cairns "High Banks Southern Cairn" and "High Banks Northern Cairn" are located west of the eponymous farm. The southern Cairn is a peat hill in which a vessel was found. Early reports mention a cup stone . The Nordcairn examined in 1890 had a diameter of 15.0 m in 1911, was 1.65 m high and had curbs.
literature
- Anna Ritchie, Graham Ritchie: Scotland. To Oxford Archaeological Guide . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 0-19-288002-0 , ( Oxford archaeological guides ).
- K. Naddair, S. Willett: High Banks (Kirkcudbright parish), cup-and-ring marks. Discovery Excavation Scotland 1996
Web links
- Entry on High Banks in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
- Location, pictures, description at megalithic
Coordinates: 54 ° 49 '7.4 " N , 4 ° 0" 38.1 " W.