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STRATH SGITHEACH ALLT NA CRICHE 8

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Canmore ID 368640 SCRAP ID 3023
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 52483 62943 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 07/08/2018 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name STRATH SGITHEACH ALLT NA CRICHE Number 8
Other names Panel H on Canmore 12923
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 52483 62943
Lat/Long 57.63221 -4.4723
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

Weather Light Rain
Position in landscape Bottom of hill
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Flat
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.)

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel located in a low-lying flat area of rough grazing, generally in the bottom of Strath Sgitheach. The Allt an Criche passes about 15m to the W. A vehicle track (not marked on the OS 1:25k map) crosses the Allt an Criche at a ford which is filled with large boulders. The panel is almost completely overgrown and located about 20m S of the ford.

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) 1.5 Width 0.7
Height (max) 0 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface 0 Carved Surface Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a large flat slab of schist. The overall size and shape is uncertain, the edges were not exposed. There are 3 shallow cups together and a further (unlikely) indentation about 1m away.

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.
  • Panel is on Private land.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
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

It is most likely to become completely grown over and very difficult to find