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MILTON PARKS 15

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Canmore ID 109166 SCRAP ID 2473
Location OS Grid Ref: NX 70264 46094 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 02/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name MILTON PARKS Number 15
Other names Area 2 Panel 8
HER/SMR MDG11638
 SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
KIRKUDBRIGHTSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NX 70264 46094
New OS NGR
Lat/Long 54.7929 -4.01934
Obtained By:

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Improved Pasture

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Settlement

B5. Location Notes

The panel is situated in improved pasture in undulating terrain with numerous rocky outcrops, on the S side of a hill looking towards the sea. It is located near the stone field wall and access road, and to the S of and opposite a telephone exchange. There is a concentration of rock art in this area. The rock art at Milton Parks 7 lies 28m due S. There are views to the S, E and W.

Previous Notes

NX74NW 110 70264 46094 Milton Parks (16) NX 7025 4609 12 solo cups on a rougher outcrop. K Naddair, S Willet, C MacKenzie and B Bierley 1996 There are at least ten cupmarks on this sheet of bedrock, which dips towards the WNW. The majority of the cups range in size from 45mm to 80mm in diameter and are up to 15mm in depth, but there is one larger example measuring 110mm in diameter. The surface of the outcrop is irregular and also pitted with natural hollows. (KTA02 288) Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC) 25 November 2002

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) 1.5 Width 0.6
Height (max) 0.2 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface NW Carved Surface NW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Fine Visible Anomalies Not Visible
 Rock Type Greywacke

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Bedding Planes

C5. Panel Notes

This is a low exposed greywacke outcrop measuring 1.45 x 0.65m and flush with the ground but slightly domed in the centre. The surface slopes to the NW and is pitted and weathered, with many small natural hollows. There are several circular and sub-circular depressions but only 2 definite cupmarks.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

Several natural hollows

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
2

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Panel is on Private land.
  • Access is managed by a national organisation.

D2. Awareness

  • No selection
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

On military firing range on MOD land