The ancient cult stone with cup marks of spherical form, unfortunately it is no longer located in its original place, thus it is not considered to be a whole archaeologically significant object, but rather a single object that was transformed by the human in ancient times while performing cult activities. The dimension of the stone: length of 3.0 m, width of 1.9 m, height of 1.25 m. There are 20 cup marks of spherical form carved into the stone. The former surface of the stone in its current position is its side. The cup marks had been made rather shallow — the deepest is only 2 cm deep and 6 cm in diameter. Red rapakivi granite.
Narrative
About the reasons of carving the cup marks, scholars have made more than 30 various assumptions, out of which the most reliable one is related to cult rituals held by such stones. This stone has been moved several times. In Soviet Times it was found somewhere in a heap pushed together during melioration works in the surroundings of Blome (in Vidzeme, Smiltene county) and brought to a quarrel in Riga where they found cup marks in the surface of the stone and decided to preserve the stone by not carving a monument of it. In 2011, the stone was transported from Riga to Pedvāle.
