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Archaeology
Cup-markings on the glaciated dolerite surfaces on the west slopes of the Hill were pointed out by R Fulton in 1991. There are eleven cup-marks on dolerite surface; nine in the shape of a pentagon with two in the centre.
Mr Fulton later found some artefacts nearby. A collection, made before 1894, from a kitchen midden on Corstorphine Hill, included shells, bone implements, hammer stones, cup-marked stones, part of a quern and pottery fragments.
Graham and Anna Ritchie commented on the 'well-formed cup-markings on a glacial pavement of dolerite, rediscovered in 1991. Their location offers wide views to the west. They were probably part of a sacred landscape of Neolithic or Bronze Age (c3600-1500 BC), but their precise purpose remains tantalisingly unknown. At the end of the 19th century, quarrying uncovered remains of settlement debris: shells, bones, stone-tools and pottery.'