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| Canmore ID |
64450 |
SCRAP ID |
909 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NX 70394 45746
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
19/03/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
MILTON PARKS |
Number |
8 |
| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
MDG4038
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup And Ring Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
KIRKUDBRIGHTSHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NX |
70384 |
45744 |
| New OS NGR |
NX |
70394 |
45746 |
| Lat/Long |
54.78981 |
-4.01717 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Mist/Fog
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| Position in landscape |
Hillside |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Undulating |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
NE |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
- Improved Pasture
- Military
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Field System
- Settlement
B5. Location Notes
The panel is situated in improved pasture on MOD land on a small outcrop on the NE sloping side of a hill, not far from the highest point. The ridge upon which the panel is situated had been quarried in the past, as had other rocky outcrops. There are extensive views all around, but the day this rock was surveyed was overcast and hazy so it was not possible to see the views. The lower part of the field was boggy and a small stream flowed from this area. The panel is near a gate into the next field. There are several other rock art panels in this field carved on hog backed shaped rocks.
Previous Notes
NX74SW 50 70384 45744
NX 7038 4575. Situated on an outcrop at the end of a slight ridge, is a NW facing rock 2.8 x 2.5 x 0.7m high bearing a cup-and single-ring.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 8 April 1971
NX 7039 4573. Located during a survey of cup and ring-marked rocks in 1990. No details given. (May possibly refer to one of the sites noted by Coles (NX74NW 33, 35, 36) but not located since).
(Description previously noted under NX74NW 90)
M van Hoek 1990.
This whale-backed rock bears a cup-and-ring on its upper surface. The cup measures 25mm in diameter by 5mm in depth and the ring is 70mm in diameter.
(KTA02 278)
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC) 25 November 2002
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
2.6 |
Width |
1.8 |
| Height (max) |
0.6 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
N |
Carved Surface |
W |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
|
Grain Size |
Fine
|
Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Greywacke
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Weathering Channels
C5. Panel Notes
This greywacke outcrop measures 2.6 x 1.8m. It is very weathered. There are many fissures and cracks running NW-SE and E-W. On the smoother and flat top of the outcrop is 1 small cup and ring. The ring is 7cm in diameter. The carved surface faces W.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
the panel is very weathered.
C7. MOTIFS
Cup and Rings
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
- Access is managed by a national organisation.
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
- There are sheep near the rock.
- There are cattle near the rock.
Human
Comments and other potential threats
It is on a military firing range.
