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| Canmore ID |
60043 |
SCRAP ID |
3365 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NT 9206 5694
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
14/04/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
HAGG WOOD, MOORPARK |
Number |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
| Classification 2 |
Burial Cairn |
Period 2 |
Bronze Age |
| Classification 3 |
Cairn Circle |
Period 3 |
Bronze Age |
County
BERWICKSHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
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| New OS NGR |
NT |
9206 |
5694 |
| Lat/Long |
55.80567 |
-2.12824 |
| Obtained By: |
Map
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny Intervals
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| Position in landscape |
Top of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Undulating |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
- Mature
- Felled
- New Plantation
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Burial Mound/Cairn
- Ditch/Bank
B5. Location Notes
The panel form parts of a cairn located within thin mixed woodland some 70m NE of the Foulden Holdings on the E side of the tarmac road. The ring cairn in which the burial cist is located lies immediately W of a modern track within the plantation. The cairn is one on four burial cairns recorded in the immediate vicinity in the mid 19th century. Only this and a more complex burial cairn (Canmore 60035, located some 600 NW) still survive.
C1. Panel Type
| In a structure |
Burial monument |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
0.7 |
Width |
0.4 |
| Height (max) |
0.3 |
Height (min) |
0.1 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
NS |
Carved Surface |
W |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
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Grain Size |
No selection
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Sandstone
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
- Smooth Surface
C5. Panel Notes
The carvings were recorded as part of a local reconnaissance of field monuments in eastern Berwickshire and comprise on two separate cupmarks on individual stones within a cist located centrally in a burial cairn of demonstrably Bronze Age date. The first cupmark occupies the lower (E) side of a single sandstone block that forms the W end of the burial cist. It is approximately circular, with a shallow profile some 60mm diameter and 30mm deep. The second cupmark is located on the upper surface of a small irregular shaped boulder that forms a part of the now distorted floor of the cist. This cupmark is ovoid, some 40mm max by 20mm deep. This was not depicted on the plan produced for the 1913 excavation report by Craw (see Canmore entry Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60043 and excavation report at https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-352-1/dissemination/pdf/vol_048/48_316_333.pdf).
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
Two cupmarks on separate sandstone blocks within the cist construction.
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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2
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
- Panel was known before the project.
- This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
- Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
- There are trees nearby whose roots might disturb the rock.
Animal
Human
- There are quarries nearby.
- The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats
The open cist was probably left exposed after the excavations carried out by Craw in 1913. There has been some tree root intervention since that has displaced some of the boulders used in the construction of the cist and the cairn more generally. There is no other obvious threat to the monument generally unless through human intervention.
