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| Canmore ID |
14260 |
SCRAP ID |
1787 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 75360 44149
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED STONE |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
04/04/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
MILTON OF CLAVA |
Number |
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| Other names |
HER MHG2964 |
| HER/SMR |
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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
NAIRN
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
75360 |
44150 |
| New OS NGR |
NH |
75360 |
44149 |
| Lat/Long |
57.47042 |
-4.07983 |
| Obtained By: |
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
- Moved from original location
- In museum
- From donation
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| Museum/Collection |
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery |
| Accession no. |
T 2013 173 |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
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| Position in landscape |
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| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
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| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
The panel is today in Inverness Museum's store at Newtonmore (NN 72957 99813). PSAS Vol 16 (1882) p.338 records that it was discovered in an old pig sty at Milton of Clava which is less than 400m from the main Balnuarin of Clava site.
Previous Notes
NH74SE 12 7536 4415.
Some cupmarked stones have been found during trenching operations around the farm-house of Milton of Clava. One of the stones, of soft yellow sandstone is 3 feet 2 inches long and 2 feet 3 inches broad and shows about thirty cups. Some of the cups are associated with curvilinear channels.
Another stone, discovered in the same diggings is of the same yellow sandstone, but is a fragment of a larger one, being 1 foot 4 1/2 inches by 10 inches and 4 inches thick. It contains two unusually well-formed cups, enclosed by an irregular shallow groove, and numerous small cuplets.
W Jolly 1882.
A stone, discovered in a pig-sty at the farm of Milton of Clava has cupmarks on both sides - on one side there are 16 cups, on the other 11. It is a small stone about 18 inches thick.
G Bain 1893.
Inquiries at Miltown of Clava failed to reveal any knowledge of these stones.
Visited by OS (W D J) 26 April 1962.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
0.5 |
Width |
0.5 |
| Height (max) |
0.2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Sandstone
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
The panel is a roughly square slab of sandstone, 0.5m x 0.5m, and 0.25m thick, with cupmarks on both sides. Side A has 13 cups, evenly distributed across the surface and with some damage at one edge. Side B has 10 cups, and about half of this face is missing. That surface is blackened. There is a good description and drawings of the panel in PSAS Vol 16 (1882) p.338. This shows that the damage to the panel was present when it was drawn in 1882.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
2 sided panel
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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23
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Access is managed by a national organisation.
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
