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DRUIM MOR 15

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Canmore ID 368466 SCRAP ID 3033
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57794 66184 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 20/08/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 15
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 57794 66184
Lat/Long 57.66301 -4.38535
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The stone is located 30m S of a deer fence on the top of a broad ridge between Strath Sgitheach and Strath Glass. The ridge runs E-W and slopes towards the E overlooking the Cromarty Firth. It is within an area approximately 200m x 100m containing around 27 other decorated stones. An old trackway runs up the ridge. The overall site was previously surveyed by Dougie Scott and Bob Gourlay in 1986 & 2001 (see Canmore entries for Druim Mor).

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) 1.4 Width 1
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface E Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Other
Other: garnets and mica 		Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

The heart shaped slab, which has a long axis oriented E-W, is partially covered by turf. Some turf was lifted to examine the stone and subsequently replaced. There are 3 fissures running across the surface N-S, W-E and SW-NE, and 15 cup marks which vary in size from 40mm to 70mm across. There is short curving groove about 0.2m long, which may be natural. There are no obvious peck marks.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
15
Groove
groove_6
1

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam 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
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added