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| Canmore ID |
13899 |
SCRAP ID |
1619 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 65216 84964
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| Cup Marked Stone |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
23/06/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
STRUIE HILL |
Number |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
MHG8056
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SM Number |
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Other |
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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 |
NH |
65210 |
84970 |
| New OS NGR |
NH |
65216 |
84964 |
| Lat/Long |
57.83384 |
-4.27161 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny
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| Position in landscape |
Hillside |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Sloping |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SSW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
This panel is situated in moorland on a SSW-facing slope of Struie Hill above the B9176 to Bonar Bridge. The slab is in a slight dip, so is not visible from the road or the path. It faces two pylons to the hillside opposite. There is a curve in the road, with a layby to the W. Along from there, at NH 6512 8508, there is a path that you can use to start up the hill. Follow this for approximately 200m and at that point, veer SE following the contours. The panel is pretty indistinctive but there are a few trees nearby. From the site, you can also see the hut-circle beneath.
Previous Notes
NH68SE 21 653 849
'Slab of mica-schist, c.2.0 by 1.0m, on hillside above A836, bears 21 clear and 3 indistinct cup-marks, including 2 linked pairs. Slab probably detached. Plan and photographs with investigators.'
R B Gourlay and D Scott 1981.
This cup-marked stone is situated within a former plantation depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet xl). Situated amongst deep heather, this stone was not located during a pre-afforestation survey at The Struie by J Wordsworth.
J Wordsworth (Wordsworth Archaeological Services) 6 August 1997; NMRS MS 961/27, no.2
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
2.2 |
Width |
1.4 |
| Height (max) |
0.6 |
Height (min) |
0.1 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
SSW |
Carved Surface |
SSE |
C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Fine
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Smooth Surface
C5. Panel Notes
This 2.25m long slab of schist has 22 distinct cup-marks on the NE side of the stone and one possible. Of these, 6 form a line of cups of varying depth along the NW edge of the slab, aligned on a SWW-NNE axis. At right angles to this alignment, at the SSW end, there are 3 deeper cups, of which there are 2 almost touching. There are 2 fissures running from the N end of the stone, to the area where the cups are arranged.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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21
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
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.
- There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
There is a risk of heather engulfing it, or else heather burning.
