Rock Art Database - Scotland's Rock Art Project

BALLOCHRAGGAN 4

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Canmore ID

78307

SCRAP ID

1211

Location OS Grid Ref:

NN 56119 01705

Team

Not in team

Existing Classifications

Classification	Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK	PREHISTORIC

Date Fieldwork Started	22/11/2018	Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel?	No

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name	BALLOCHRAGGAN		Number	4
Other names
HER/SMR		SM Number	SM8106	Other

Classifications And Periods

Classification 1

Cup And Ring Marked Rock

Period 1

Neol/bronze Age

County

PERTHSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR	NN	56100	01710
New OS NGR	NN	56119	01705
Lat/Long	56.18616	-4.31989
Obtained By:	GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located	At original location
Accession no.	Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

No selection

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

Other rock art
Field System

Other: Rig and furrow

B5. Location Notes

Located 33m to the SE side of a mature forestry plantation, roughly 50m to the SW of a small knoll, with a stone field wall 65m to the E. Several gorse bushes are within the immediate vicinity, as well as two other carved panels (Ballochraggan 10 and 11) to the W of the SE end of the panel. The closest is 3m distance, the second a further 3m (totalling 6m distance from this panel). There are open views over the Lake of Menteith and the Campsie Fells to the S.

Previous Notes

NN50SE 8.04 5610 0171 Formerly NN50SE 46 NN 5613 0172 155m OD. Outcrop sheet with at least 5 cups with single rings; 2 cups with 2 rings; 1 cup with 3 rings and 3 solo cups. M van Hoek 1989. This is presumably the site noted as "incorrectly reported" by Naddair, who gives a grid reference of NN 5612 0175 and describes an outcrop beside a path with over 7 cups, 6 cups with 1 ring and 1 cup with two rings and 1 3-ring horseshoe maze design. An adjacent outcrop (same grid reference) has "3 solo cups and 1 solo and 1 pair of cups with 3 rings". K Naddair et al 1992. This outcropping bedrock is as generally described above, however, there is a further decorated outcrop some 3m to the NW, which includes one cup and ring marking and two cups within an oval ring. Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, DRE) 15 May 1995

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)	6.6	Width	2.4
Height (max)	0.1	Height (min)	0

Approximate slope of carved surface

degrees

Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)

Rock Surface

Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness

Friable

Grain Size

Fine

Visible Anomalies

No selection

Rock Type

Sandstone

C4. Surface Features

Fissures/cracks
Natural Hollows
Bedding Planes

C5. Panel Notes

This is a large, flat, gently SW sloping sandstone panel with many natural fissures running across the surface along the longest axis. The stone is breaking apart at the bottom of the fissures. There are numerous motifs carved across the surface of this panel including: at least 15 cupmarks, 7 cup and single rings, 3 cups with single partial ring, 5 cups with two or more ring (2 double, three triple), 2 cups with two partial rings, and a set of two parallel grooves which change angle between one motif and another. There is a concentration of the larger motifs on the NW end of the panel.