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NEILSON'S HILL 2

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Canmore ID SCRAP ID 3304
Location OS Grid Ref: NX 41767 55017 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 10/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed 12/09/2019
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name NEILSON'S HILL Number 2
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
WIGTOWNSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NX 41767 55017
Lat/Long 54.86483 -4.46703
Obtained By: GPS
Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Improved Pasture

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Clearance cairn(s)

B5. Location Notes

Take the B733 from Wigtown 1.5k towards Torhouse. After going straight over the crossroads (by Low Cotland), look for the prominent stone to the South on the near horizon at the top of the small hill, go through the gate below it, keeping the field wall, which runs up the hill, on your left. At the top there is a pile of stones, possibly the remains of a cairn 10m from the wall to its W. The main panel is on the north side of the cairn (Neilson's Hill 1). This, the second panel, is 2m to the S of Neilson's Hill 1, and borders on the E side of the cairn. The stone wall is 5m to its E and the grid ref is accurate to 1.9m.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 2 Width 1
Height (max) 0.2 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
1 degrees 10 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Fine Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Greywacke

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly rectangular panel, divided into two portions (N and S), measuring 2m by 1m in size and up to 0.2m in height. The S side of the panel has been carved with a group of 6 cups at the higher end and 4 more further down the slope, as well as 1 pecked lozenge shape and 1 possible pecked lozenge. The N side has been carved with a pecked groove running up the slope approx 0.8m long.

C6. Probability

The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is Definite

Comments

One pecked lozenge may be possible.

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
10
Groove
groove_4 groove_8
1 2

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? Yes

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.
  • Panel is on Private land.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added