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| Canmore ID |
6717 |
SCRAP ID |
267 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NC 89456 24025
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP AND RING MARKED STONE |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
24/10/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
LEARABLE HILL |
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 And Ring Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
SUTHERLAND
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NC |
89450 |
24030 |
| New OS NGR |
NC |
89456 |
24025 |
| Lat/Long |
58.19114 |
-3.88198 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Cloudy
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| Position in landscape |
Hillside |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Sloping |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SE |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Field System
- Burial Mound/Cairn
- Stone Circle
- Enclosure
B5. Location Notes
This stone lies in rough pasture on a SE facing hillside, in the north arc of a stone circle, 40m NW of Learable cup marked stone (ScRAP ID: 2572; Canmore ID: 6709). There is a tree about 30m to the SE, just to the south of a stone and turf dyke. There is a gate in the fence 60m to the NW.
Previous Notes
"NC82SE 5 8945 2402.
(NC 8945 2402) Stone Circle (NR)
OS 6"map, (1962)
The remains of a stone circle on a slight eminence. Three long pointed stones remain, all overturned, and another large stone protruding from the ground towards the SW may have formed part of the circle. The stones are from 5'6" to 8' in length, and from 2'8" to 4' in breadth. The stone on the north arc of the circle bears an incised ring 6" across, with 2' below it a small cup-mark 2" across, and about 1" to 2" from the base is another well-defined cup-mark and two faint ones.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909
The remains of this stone circle are as described above and it appears to have had a diameter of about 14m. There is insufficient evidence to classify these three, possibly four,stones as the remains of a stone circle. It is significant that they are all pointed and of similar size; as it the cup-marked stone (NC82SE 2) some 20.0m downhill. However the stones in their present position do not form a true circle, and the pos"
NC82SE 5 8945 2402.
(NC 8945 2402) Stone Circle (NR)
OS 6"map, (1962)
The remains of a stone circle on a slight eminence. Three long pointed stones remain, all overturned, and another large stone protruding from the ground towards the SW may have formed part of the circle. The stones are from 5'6" to 8' in length, and from 2'8" to 4' in breadth. The stone on the north arc of the circle bears an incised ring 6" across, with 2' below it a small cup-mark 2" across, and about 1" to 2" from the base is another well-defined cup-mark and two faint ones.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909
The remains of this stone circle are as described above and it appears to have had a diameter of about 14m. There is insufficient evidence to classify these three, possibly four,stones as the remains of a stone circle. It is significant that they are all pointed and of similar size; as it the cup-marked stone (NC82SE 2) some 20.0m downhill. However the stones in their present position do not form a true circle, and the position on a fairly steep ENE-facing slope is unusual for a stone circle. There is also no evidence for its being the remains of a cairn. The cup-marked stone (RCAHMS 1911) is at NC 89459 24032, the most northerly of the stones (A) in this alleged circle.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 21 Feburary 1977
What has been previously recorded by RCAHMS as a stone circle on a slight eminence (RCAHMS 1911), comprises three large boulders of which one is decorated with cup and ring-marks. This cup-marked slab (1.9m long, 1.1m broad and 0.6m thick) lies some 40m NW of the cup-marked stone (NC82SE 2). On its upper face there are three plain cup-marks (up to 60mm in diameter by 16mm deep) and a pecked ring-mark (140mm in diameter).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 6 June 1991.
C1. Panel Type
| In a structure |
Standing stone monument |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
2 |
Width |
1.2 |
| Height (max) |
0.6 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
E |
Carved Surface |
NE |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
A large oval shaped boulder measuring 2m in length by 1.2m in width and up to 0.6m high. The flattish, upper surface slopes gently to the E, and has been carved with one ring (without a central cup) and 3 solo cups.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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3
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Simple Ring
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
- Panel was known before the project.
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.
Animal
- There are sheep near the rock.
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
