Ballochmyle cup and ring marks

#5236 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Ballochmyle cup and ring marks were first recorded at Ballochmyle, Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland in 1986, very unusually carved on a vertical red sandstone cliff face, forming one of the most extensive areas of such carvings as yet found in Britain. They have been designated a scheduled monument. ()

Coordinates: 55°30'0"N, 4°21'32"W

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Ballochmyle cup and ring marks – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dumfries House, Bachelors' Club, Terringzean Castle, Mauchline Castle.

3.7 miSE
Architecture, History museum, Museum
Dumfries House, Cumnock
94 min walk • Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in Ayrshire, Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around two miles west of Cumnock.
5.1 miW
Museum, Historical place
Bachelors' Club, Ayr
129 min walk • The Bachelors' Club is a National Trust for Scotland museum located at 1 Sandgate Street, Tarbolton, KA5 5RB. The upstairs room was the largest in Tarbolton and was used for a number of social events.
4.7 miSE
Forts and castles
Terringzean Castle, Cumnock
120 min walk • Terringzean Castle, also Taringzean, pronounced 'Tringan', is a Category B listed castle ruin lying above the River Lugar and the Terringzean Holm in the policies of Dumfries House, Parish of Cumnock, Scotland.
1.3 miNW
Forts and castles
Mauchline Castle, Mauchline
35 min walk • Mauchline Castle, also known as Abbot Hunter's Tower, is a rectangular tower house dating from the fifteenth century, in Mauchline, East Ayrshire, Scotland.
5.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Fail Loch
141 min walk • Fail Loch or Faile Loch was situated in a low-lying area near the old monastery of Fail in the Parish of Tarbolton, South Ayrshire, Scotland. The old Lochlea Loch lies nearby and its waters still feed into Fail Loch via the Mill Burn.
2.5 miNE
Forts and castles
Sorn Castle
63 min walk • Sorn Castle is located by the River Ayr just outside the village of Sorn in East Ayrshire, Scotland. The castle comprises a medieval tower house, which was extended over the years, and remodelled in the Scots Baronial style by David Bryce in the 1860s.
4.9 miSE
Bridge
Woodroad Viaduct, Cumnock
126 min walk • The Woodroad Viaduct, also known as Bank Viaduct or Templand Viaduct, is a viaduct carrying the Glasgow South Western Line over the Lugar Water at Cumnock in East Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
1.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Wallace's Cave
39 min walk • Wallace's Cave in the Lugar Gorge at Auchinleck in the Parish of Auchinleck is an 18th-century grotto contemporary with Dr Johnson's Summerhouse, also located on the Auchinleck Estate.
1.8 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Peden's Cave
47 min walk • Peden's Cave is at least partly artificial and is set into a craggy outcrop of red sandstone rocks overlooking the River Lugar just below the farm of Auchinbay in East Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the town of Ochiltree.
5.3 miSE
Bridge
Glaisnock Viaduct, Cumnock
137 min walk • The Glaisnock Viaduct or Caponacre Viaduct is a viaduct over the Glaisnock Water, on the former Glasgow and South Western Railway. It is located in Cumnock, East Ayrshire.
4.2 miSW
Forts and castles
Trabboch Castle
108 min walk • Trabboch Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house in the old Barony of Trabboch, Parish of Stair, East Ayrshire, Scotland.