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| Canmore ID |
12251 |
SCRAP ID |
2725 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 39794 31029
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
04/08/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
MIDTON |
Number |
1 |
| 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 Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
39794 |
31029 |
| New OS NGR |
NH |
39794 |
31029 |
| Lat/Long |
57.34153 |
-4.66362 |
| 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 |
Hillside |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Undulating |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SSW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Cairnfield
- Field System
- Settlement
- Burial Mound/Cairn
- Standing Stone
- Hut circle(s)
B5. Location Notes
The panel lies in rough grazing on a SW facing slope overlooking the River Enrick where a number of smaller burns join the main river. It is situated within a landscape of Bronze Age remains, hut circles clearance cairns, field systems and, on the other side of the river about 1km to the W, is Corrimony, a Clava type cairn. Just to the N of the panel there are the scattered remains of a standing stone which was destroyed at some point in the past possibly when a small water reservoir was built. At present the land is a mixture of older crofting and modern farming with forestry and open moorland to the N and improved pasture to the S, E and W. Below the outcrop about 50m to the SW there is a minor road to Buntait and beyond that the land slopes down to the river valley. The is part of a ridge of partially exposed rock with some grass and a lot of gorse bushes. The ridge has post and wire fences along its bottom edges on the E and W sides separating it from the pasture fields on either side. There is an informal access route to the higher pasture along the ridge beside the panel. Midton 1 lies about 4m W of a second cup marked rock, Midton 2,and was previously grouped with Midton 2 under the same Canmore ID 12251 (ScRAP 2725).
Previous Notes
NH33SE 18 39794 31029.
At NH 3979 3102 there is a roughly level outcrop of rock with a slight inclination to the W, which bears about 20 cup-marks, some extremely weathered, in an area about 0.8m square.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J M) 10 June 1974
This cup-marked rock could not be located at the date of survey and has probably been buried beneath field clearance.
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 22 October 1997
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
1.9 |
Width |
1.1 |
| Height (max) |
0 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
S |
Carved Surface |
S |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Quartz Veins
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Rock Type |
Gneiss
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Weathering Channels
C5. Panel Notes
This is part of the extensive sheet of gneiss outcrop forming a S facing ridge covered with patches of turf scattered over the rock. The turf may increase at times as on occasions in the past the panels have not been found. At the time of this visit there were two sections of exposed cupmarks and these have been recorded as separate panels as they were 4m apart. Midton 1 is to the W and Midton 2 to the E. The turf between the panels was too deep to remove without causing damage. Midton 1 is an irregular shaped area of exposed bedrock 1.95 E-W x 1.10m and flush with the turf. The rock is gneiss with quartz inclusions running roughly N-S. The panel is generally S facing with the quartz inclusions creating shallow channels. The cupmarks are grouped to the W side of the panel. There are 34 cups, 4 oval or double cups, 3 dumbbell motifs and a large oval which runs into a channel which includes 2-3 cups and at the end of the channel there is a clearer cup. The cupmarks are of varying depths and size with some small and shallow cups and it is possible that there are several more very shallow weathered cups.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Probable
Comments
1 large oval cup with a channel including 2-3 cups with another at the end.
C7. MOTIFS
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
Animal
- There are sheep near the rock.
Human
- The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats
There is an informal access track immediately beside the panel.
