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Strath Sgitheach Balnacrae West

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Canmore ID 368658 SCRAP ID 3036
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 52197 63713 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 07/08/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name Strath Sgitheach Balnacrae West Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 52197 63713
Lat/Long 57.63903 -4.47756
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Field System
  • Settlement
  • Enclosure
  • Ditch/Bank
Other: All post Medieval

B5. Location Notes

The panel is situated in rough grazing within an abandoned settlement site comprising one house and several enclosures, 50 m NW of a forestry plantation. It is on the S facing slope overlooking Strath Sgitheach, with the river and the open landscape to the S. The ground immediately around the panel is reasonably level, rising to the N.

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) 1.2 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.2 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface 0 Carved Surface 0 Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

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

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a roughly wedge-shaped area of rock outcrop that was completely covered in grass/heather when located. It is flush with the ground on its NW edge, and rises about 0.2m above the sloping ground on it SE edge. The upper surface is flat and bears 8 cupmarks of up to 70mm in diameter, in no apparent pattern.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

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C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
8

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

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
  • There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.
Animal
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added