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NETHER GLENNY 24

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Canmore ID 368595 SCRAP ID 3046
Location OS Grid Ref: NN 56201 01879 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 19/11/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name NETHER GLENNY Number 24
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup And Ring Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
No County recorded

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NN 56201 01879
Lat/Long 56.18775 -4.31866
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.) S

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing
  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • Mature

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

A small area of exposed bedrock located on the W side of a small knoll in rough grazing and bracken on the S facing hill slope looking out towards Lake Menteith and the Campsie Fells. The panel is about 9m E of the stone dyke at the edge of the mature pine forest and about 10m N of the modern wire fence. Nether Glenny 22 is roughly 40m to the E and Nether Glenny 23 is 2m to the N slightly downslope.

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) 1.4 Width 1.1
Height (max) 0 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
5 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface WSW Carved Surface WSW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Friable Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Not Visible
 Rock Type Sandstone

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Bedding Planes

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a roughly oval area of exposed bedrock flush with the ground and sloping gently to the WSW. The surface is striated with lines of bedding planes and features numerous ovoid and sub-circular natural hollows, especially in the lower section of the panel. There is one cup with a ring on the N side of the panel.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cup and Rings
cup_and_ring_1
1

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

  • No selection
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
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

No comments added