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| Canmore ID |
368696 |
SCRAP ID |
3182 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NL 97159 42843
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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None.
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
28/05/2018 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
Yes |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
Tiree, Ceosabh |
Number |
3 |
| Other names |
NT017 |
| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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Classifications And Periods
| Classification 1 |
Natural Feature |
Period 1 |
Period Unknown |
County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
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| New OS NGR |
NL |
97159 |
42843 |
| Lat/Long |
56.47998 |
-6.92065 |
| Obtained By: |
GPS
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Sunny
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| Position in landscape |
Top of hill |
| 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
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Standing Stone
B5. Location Notes
In almost the middle of the western bulge of Tiree, with Carnan Mor and Ben Hynish in the S, Loch a Phuill to the W, and Beinn Hough to the NW lies flat pasture land. This is regularly divided by a mix of old stone dykes and modern post-and-wire fences. Interspersed in this pasture are a series of cnocs, rocky outcrops, that lie up to 6m above the land surface. This panel is one of two that sit at the top of a slight crest (point 20m on 1:25000 OS maps) between a N sloping field and a S sloping field. They lie either side of a NS post-and-wire fence, Ceosabh 2 to the W, Ceosabh 3 to the E. This fence separates two fields of rough grazing. The field in which the five Heylipol cup-marked rocks lie is just to the north. Ceosabh croft-house lies 50m to the S.
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
5 |
Width |
5 |
| Height (max) |
2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
N |
Carved Surface |
N |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
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Grain Size |
Coarse
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
Gneiss
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
- Weathering Channels
- Rough surface
C5. Panel Notes
This roughly 5m circular outcrop of bedrock lies at the crest of a gentle ridge, with fields sloping away northwards and southwards. Two post and wire fences run parallel to each other, to the W (5m) and E (15m). Ceosabh 2 lies 10m to the W, the other side of a post and wire fence. The surface of the panel is roughened, perhaps from a similar fire as to Ceosabh 2. There are post holes drilled into the surface of it in three places. There is one cupshaped depression on the western side of the outcrop, as indicated on the sketch. This is almost certainly natural.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Possible
Comments
1 cupshaped depression, almost certainly natural.
C7. MOTIFS
Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
- Right to Roam access.
- Panel is on Private land.
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
- There are sheep near the rock.
- There are cattle near the rock.
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
