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| Canmore ID |
14424 |
SCRAP ID |
2201 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 79620 52840
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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 |
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Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
BREACHLICH CHURCHYARD |
Number |
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| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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County
INVERNESS-SHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
79620 |
52840 |
| New OS NGR |
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| Lat/Long |
57.54959 |
-4.01314 |
| Obtained By: |
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
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
No notes added
Previous Notes
NH75SE 8 7962 5284
See also NH75SE 7.
In St Ewan's Churchyard are six cup-marked yellow sandstone slabs. The cups are small, generally, and this is probably an obliteration caused by smoothing, facing and sculpting for use as gravestones.
A. No. 11 (fig. 72), just opposite the entrance about the middle of
the yard, has more than forty cups and has been squared, smoothed, carved and lettered.
B and C Nos. 12 and 13 (figs. 73 and 74) No information.
D No. 14 (fig 75) is on the west side of the yard is 4ft long by 2ft 8ins, broken at the top and with about fourteen cups.
E No. 15 (fig 769 Opposite the entrance gate is 6ft 6ins long by 2ft wide top and 1ft 4ins at bottom. About forty cups on a rough irregular surface.
F No. 16 (fig 77). One cup mark and a probably artificial conch-like hollow. Some other dimensions are given concerning the cups.
W Jolly 1882.
At NH 7962 5284, opposite the entrance to the graveyard there is an half-buried earthfast, recumbent, sandstone slab with several cup markings on the face, which has been prepared for use as a gravestone. The cup marks appear at the lower end of the slab, and there are several letters at the top, which are now indecipherable. No trace of the other five cup marked yellow sandstone slabs mentioned by Jolly could be found in Breachlich Churchyard.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R B) 20 August 1964.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
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Width |
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| Height (max) |
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Height (min) |
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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 |
No selection
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Grain Size |
No selection
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
No selection
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
No notes added
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
not mentioned
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
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
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
