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Canmore ID 12648 SCRAP ID 415
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 52710 34520 Team NOSAS
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED STONE PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name RIVOULICH Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 52710 34520
New OS NGR
Lat/Long 57.37721 -4.45133
Obtained By:

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather
Position in landscape
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.)
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.)

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • No selection

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

No notes added
Previous Notes

NH53SW 9 5271 3452. A rough stone bearing 14 cup-marks lies at the bottom of a march dike, on the rough elevated road between Abriachan (NH 55 35) and Drumnadrochit, about half a mile north by east of Rivulich farmhouse. (Rivoulich NH 52 33?) 'It lies in the centre of an old inhabited part, now under cultivation, an upland green oasis between Glenurquhart and Abriachan.' (In the immediate neighbourhood are numerous 'grave mounds' and hut-circles - see NH53SW 12). W Jolly 1882 At NH 5271 3452 is the cup-marked stone as described and illustrated by Jolly. Surveyed at 1/10,000. Visited by OS (R L) 24 Feburary 1970

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) Width
Height (max) Height (min)
Approximate slope of carved surface
degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface Carved Surface Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness No selection Grain Size No selection Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type No selection

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

C5. Panel Notes

No notes added

C6. Probability

The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is not mentioned

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
14

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • No selection

D2. Awareness

  • No selection
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added