Buchanty Hill is a couple of miles to the northwest of Fowlis Wester. Carved into a rock are around 30 cup, cup-and-ring and dumbell marks. Many of these are heavily weathered, but some are very deeply carved.
1/5 Looking southwest over Loch Mealitrodden to the low hill on which two stone circles stand.
2/5 Looking southwest to the fortified Mailquhanzie Hill.
3/5 Detail of the surface, with the compass showing south to be up the picture. A dumbell (two joined cups) can be faintly seen at the bottom-centre.
4/5 Looking across the surface.
5/5 Many cups can be seen, and a dumbell is fairly clear in the centre of the surface.
Nearby Sites
1km Fowlis Wester Stone Circles Stone Circles; Standing Stone; Cairn
2km Crofthead Farm Standing Stones
2km Fowlis Wester Pictish Stones Pictish Stones
3km Monzie Cairn Circle
5km Ferntower Stone Circle Stone Circle; Cup Mark
10km Clach na Tiompan Chambered Cairn; Standing Stone; Possible Stone Circle
10km River Almond Stone Circle; Cairn
13km Auchterarder Standing Stones
15km Dunning Standing Stone
15km Dupplin Cross Pictish Free-Standing Cross
16km Peterhead Farm Standing Stone; Pictish Class I Stone
17km Ardoch Roman Fort Roman Fort
19km Dunkeld Park Standing Stone
19km Kindrochat Chambered Cairn
20km Colen Wood Stone Circle
20km Perth Museum Pictish Stones
(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)