Rock Art Database - Scotland's Rock Art Project

BRAHAN HOUSE

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Canmore ID

12846

SCRAP ID

Location OS Grid Ref:

NH 51110 54731

Team

Not in team

Existing Classifications

Classification	Period
CUP AND RING MARKED STONE	PREHISTORIC
CIST	PERIOD UNASSIGNED

Date Fieldwork Started	06/02/2020	Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel?	No

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name	BRAHAN HOUSE		Number
Other names
HER/SMR		SM Number		Other

Classifications And Periods

Classification 1

Cup And Ring Marked Stone

Period 1

Neol/bronze Age

County

ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR	NH	51110	54730
New OS NGR	NH	51110	54731
Lat/Long	57.55807	-4.49023
Obtained By:	Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located	Moved from original location Re-located Provenance unknown
Accession no.	Not given

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

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

B2. Current land use & vegetation

Improved Pasture
Route way

Other:At side of lane

B3. Forestry

No selection

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

No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel, leaning against a stone wall, is almost immediately opposite the entrance to Brahan House, across the lane, a few metres W of the stone steps into the field opposite the house.

Previous Notes

"NH55SW 14 5111 5473. At NH 5111 5473, leaning against a wall at Brahan House, is a cup marked slab bearing about 45 cups, 12 of which are ringed, and two form a 'dumbell'. According to Matheson (Capt A F Matheson, Brahan House) it came from Brahan Castle (NH 55 SW 5), and is probably the one noted by Jolly (W Jolly 1882) as "a fine example from Bakerhill (NH 535 570) now on the steps of Brahan Castle and illustrated by Simpson". Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (A A) 24 April 1974. The cup-and-ring marked capstone of a cist; still at NH 5111 5473. RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978. No change. Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989."

NH55SW 14 5111 5473. At NH 5111 5473, leaning against a wall at Brahan House, is a cup marked slab bearing about 45 cups, 12 of which are ringed, and two form a 'dumbell'. According to Matheson (Capt A F Matheson, Brahan House) it came from Brahan Castle (NH 55 SW 5), and is probably the one noted by Jolly (W Jolly 1882) as "a fine example from Bakerhill (NH 535 570) now on the steps of Brahan Castle and illustrated by Simpson". Surveyed at 1/2500. Visited by OS (A A) 24 April 1974. The cup-and-ring marked capstone of a cist; still at NH 5111 5473. RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978. No change. Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape

Boulder/Slab

Leaning against a wall

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)

Length (longer axis)	1	Width	0.3
Height (max)	1.2	Height (min)	0

Approximate slope of carved surface

degrees

Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)

Rock Surface

Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness

Hard

Grain Size

Coarse

Visible Anomalies

Quartz Veins

Rock Type

Schist

C4. Surface Features

No selection

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is a flat-faced slab of schist, 1.2m x 1.0m x 0.3 m thick, leaning against a stone wall at Brahan House. There are bands of quartz in the schist, crossing the face diagonally. The E edge of the panel has probably been broken. The whole of the exposed face is decorated. There are 31 single cupmarks, 12 cups with clear single rings, 1 dumbbell, 1 ringed cup joined to a simple cup by a groove, and 1 ringed cup joined to 2 simple cups by a groove. There are other possible part-rings and grooves. At the bottom centre of the panel one of the rings overlaps another and at the bottom E edge of the panel 3 cups form a distinctive close group. The rear of the panel is not accessible to the camera, but a possible groove and 2 to 4 possible cups can be felt.