They are easy to miss, and easy to mistake for the many natural depressions that pit the same rock around them. That ambiguity is part of what makes the site quietly compelling: the stone itself is doing something very similar on its own, and yet these two marks are distinct enough to be recognised as deliberate.

Cupmarks are among the most widespread and least understood features of the prehistoric landscape. They are simple, shallow, roughly circular depressions ground or pecked into rock, found across Ireland, Britain, and much of Europe, and associated broadly with the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, though precise dating at any individual site is rarely possible. The two examples here are modest in scale, the larger measuring around nine centimetres across and three centimetres deep, the smaller slightly less so. They sit on the north-western face of a ridge, in the kind of marginal ground that prehistoric people nevertheless moved through, marked, and apparently considered worth returning to. What the cupmarks meant to those who made them remains genuinely unknown. Ritual use is the most common suggestion, but the evidence rarely goes further than that.