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DRUIM MOR 8

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Canmore ID 368481 SCRAP ID 3021
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57712 66175 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 20/08/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 8
Other names Druim Mor DS08
HER/SMR SM Number Other
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
New OS NGR NH 57712 66175
Lat/Long 57.6629 -4.38672
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Sunny Intervals
Position in landscape Top of hill
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) E

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

This rock sits on an E facing undulating spur between two straths looking towards the Cromarty Firth and the Sutors. It sits in rough pasture and is 120m E and down slope from a stone dyke just N of Drumore 7. There is a medieval farmstead 100m to the SE. The panel is part of the Scheduled Drumore group of cup marked rocks.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 0.7 Width 0.4
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0.1
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface W Carved Surface W Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Other
Other: quartz,feldspar,mica,garnet 		Rock Type Not Sure

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

A roughly rectangular rock measuring 0.73x0.45m with its longest axis running W to E. It rises to a maximum of 0.9m above the ground surface and has a smooth surface apart from one fissure. Quartz, feldspar, mica and garnets are visible within the rock matrix. There are 3 cupmarks, and 2 shallow depression that could possibly be cupmarks but are more likely to be natural features.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
3

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
  • This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

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

No comments added