Mount Alt Farm - Cup Marked Stone

This stone is on display in the Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Stirling. It was found in 1893 near Mount Alt Farm in the Ochils along with a cinerary urn (whereabouts now not known). The precise location and circumstances of the find is unknown and the only record the museum now has of it is on its display card. It has been classified as a cup marked rock but the indentations are much largers and deeper than the usual cup marks and appear more like bowls. I would speculate that this is more likely to have been used as a 'knockin' stane' or was possibly a bullaun stone as the bowls would have collected water. Possibly it may have been associated with a cist as it is stated to have been found in association with a funerary urn. Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab