Rock Art Database - Scotland's Rock Art Project

CRAIKNESS HILL 1

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Canmore ID

236010

SCRAP ID

2548

Location OS Grid Ref:

NX 68800 44846

Team

Not in team

Existing Classifications

Classification	Period
CUP AND RING MARKED ROCK	PREHISTORIC

Date Fieldwork Started	16/04/2019	Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel?	No

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name	CRAIKNESS HILL		Number	1
Other names
HER/SMR	MDG21178	SM Number		Other

Classifications And Periods

Classification 1

Cup And Ring Marked Rock

Period 1

Neol/bronze Age

County

KIRKUDBRIGHTSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR	NX	68796	44847
New OS NGR	NX	68800	44846
Lat/Long	54.78131	-4.04153
Obtained By:	GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located	At original location
Accession no.	Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

Improved Pasture

B3. Forestry

No selection

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

Other rock art
Enclosure

B5. Location Notes

Located on a gently, SW sloping open field of improved pasture c.100m to the NE of the gate leading into the field from the tank track, c.120m directly E of Balmae Gardens Cottage, with open views to the sea in the S. The site is overlooked by two peaks in the N.

Previous Notes

NX64SE 44 68796 44847 At least ten plain cups, twelve cup-and-ring markings and a rosette design are carved into this subrectangular sheet of bedrock exposed on a SW-facing hillside to the ENE of Balmae Gardens Cottage. The rock is separated into two panels by a strip of turf and with the exception of three cups and several gutters, all the carvings are on the W panel. The seven plain cups on the W panel range from 35mm to 50mm in diameter and are 10mm in maximum depth. Two cups measuring 50mm in diameter and 10mm in depth are set within single rings 100mm in diameter. The other ten cup-and-ring marks are pierced by gutters, the cups ranging from 50mm to 70mm in diameter by 10mm in depth and the rings from 100mm to 140mm in diameter. There is a network of interconnected gutters and lines around these carvings and at the W end there is a group of seven small cups forming a rosette around a central cup. These cups measure 30mm in diameter and 5mm in depth and a gutter skirts the rosette on the W. The three plain cups on the E panel measure between 30mm and 55mm in diameter by 10mm in depth. One of the cups has a short gutter to the N. A fourth cup at the S end of the panel measures 75mm in diameter by 25mm in depth, and is set within an enclosing gutter that runs off to the NW. There are further gutters at the SW end of the panel. (KTA02 25) Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, DCC), 26 November 2002.