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| Canmore ID |
5650 |
SCRAP ID |
2523 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NC 60162 34988
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
01/09/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
DUN CREAGACH |
Number |
2 |
| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Cup And Ring Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
SUTHERLAND
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NC |
60160 |
34990 |
| New OS NGR |
NC |
60162 |
34988 |
| Lat/Long |
58.28121 |
-4.38641 |
| Obtained By: |
Mobile Phone
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Cloudy
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| Position in landscape |
Bottom of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Undulating |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Field System
- Clearance cairn(s)
- Hut circle(s)
B5. Location Notes
The panel lies on the SW facing slope of a low knoll between the SE shore of Loch Naver and the NW slopes of Ben Klebreck. To the N (about 3m) is the turf covered wall of a hut circle, with a second conjoined hut circle to the N. The knoll is grass, heather and bracken covered but the panel lies in rough grass. Dun Creagach 1 (Canmore 5649, ScRAP 464) and Dun Creagach 3 lie about 200m to the S. There is other archaeology in the area, more hut circles, Dun Creagach broch and Klibreck, a multiperiod settlement with a chapel site, a standing stone and a cross incised stone.
Previous Notes
NC63SW 6 6016 3499.
At NC 6016 3499, lying three metres from the wall of the southern hut of NC63NW 7, is a cup-marked rock. Its upper surface, measuring 1.5m by 0.7m, just protrudes above ground level. On it are at least twenty shallow cup marks, a co-joining pair and a deeply etched ring 0.15m in diameter. A slight "dimple-like" hollowing within the latter is too indistinct to classify with certainty as a cup-mark.
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J B) 4 April 1977.
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.5 |
Width |
0.7 |
| Height (max) |
0.2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
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 |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Fine
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
This is a small rectangular boulder measuring 1.55m NE-SW by 0.7m, and protruding to a maximum height of 0.2m above the turf with a flat upper surface. There is a fissure running NE-SW across the N end of the boulder. There are 31 cupmarks of which 4 are conjoined by a groove. There are 2 rings with upstanding 'bosses' in their centres. One of the centres of the rings has a slight depression or dimple.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
4 conjoined with a groove.
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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27
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2
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Simple Ring
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1
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Cup and Rings
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1
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Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
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
- Large areas of the rock are covered in lichen, moss or algae.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
