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A cup-marked stone containing 40 cup marks, now in the churchyard of St Finnian's Church. Two cups are connected by an elongated line, and three cups similarly joined to make a T, also another like this, four other cups joined by grooves to form a cross. This may represent the consecration of the stone by changing Pagan cups into Christian crosses. Thought to have been in Tarland Church (Dr Sedgewick,1999), but re-found in situ still in 2007. Site visit in August 2013 noted that the roughly triangular stone, which measures circa 0.9 x 0.9 x 0.9 m was lying on an overgrown bank by the side of the entrance track to Glack farm. A total of 60 cups were observed, some very small as a result of erosion of the surface, and none greater than circa 50 mm in diameter or deeper than circa 20 mm. Of the 60 cups two groups of three cups have been joined in the form of a cross by straight, shallow and narrow grooves. The patina suggests the carving was done a long time ago. Additionally, two pairs of cups have been joined by shallow grooves to form bridle motifs. At that time it was positioned at NJ 4374 0676, but it was reported in October 2018 as now being within the south-east side of the churchyard of St Finnian's Church (NJ40NW0042). Scotland's Rock Art Project recorded the stone near the eastern edge of the churchyard, bearing 35 simple cups of varying sizes, and three other motifs of which two are each sets of three or four deep cups placed close together and joined. The third motif is four cups in a square pattern joined by a cross.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)