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GLEN GOULANDIE

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Canmore ID 300452 SCRAP ID 2674
Location OS Grid Ref: NN 77094 52440 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 10/10/2020 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name GLEN GOULANDIE Number
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
PERTHSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NN 77093 52434
New OS NGR NN 77094 52440
Lat/Long 56.64757 -4.00601
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
Accession no. Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Moorland
  • Rough Grazing
  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • New Plantation

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

  • Other rock art
  • Settlement
  • Burial Mound/Cairn
  • Hut circle(s)

B5. Location Notes

The panel is located on the E side of the valley between Keltneyburn and Tummel Bridge / Braes of Foss (B847), about 300m directly to the E of Glengoulandie Farm and caravan park. It is situated uphill of an area of new forestry plantation (mixed), on a slightly raised knoll in open, unimproved pasture and about 15m downhill of a N-S running stone wall and fence. A line of pylons (Beauly-Denny) runs along the glen at approximately the same elevation as the outcrop. The panel is overlooked by the immediate hills surrounding Glengoulandie, and there are clear views along the valley and notably towards the peak of Schiehallion to the W. Hut circles, a cairn, historic structures, military sites and possibly other rock art (not recorded) are found in the surrounding area.

Previous Notes

NN 77093 52434 350m E of Glen Goulandie Farm in unimproved pasture at 330m OD an outcrop bears 18 cup marks. George Currie, 2008

A rapid walkover survey was carried out in advance of a proposed forestry plantation. Features and monuments recorded in both the NMR and local SMR were checked on the ground and recommendations made for those that should be excluded from the plantation. A line of thirteen stone and turf built grouse butts were recorded on the slopes of Meall Dubh Mor. Information from Oasis (derekhal1-117291) 11 September 2012

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) 3.6 Width 2.4
Height (max) 0.7 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
5 degrees 0 degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface NE Carved Surface E Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Nodules
Colour Bands
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

This is a large, irregular outcrop measuring 3.6 x 2.4m, with a maximum height of 0.7m on the SW and flush with the ground along its N and E sides. The surface slopes variably to the N and E, and numerous cracks and natural pits and hollows are present across the panel. The rock type is hard with a coarse grain (probable schist), with visible quartz and other inclusions over a rough surface. Carvings are concentrated along the N and W end of the panel, on the flat upper section of the outcrop, and comprise at least 20 probable cups, one of which may have a single ring, and 3 large oval depressions, which may have radials formed from enlarged natural grooves. The motifs are all highly eroded.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

Very eroded, precise numbers not obvious during recording or from 3D model. At least one of the cups may have a single ring.

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
20 3
Partial Ring
partial_ring_arc_3
1
Groove
groove_6
2

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.
  • 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.
  • There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.
  • Water will pool deeply on parts of the surface.
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

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