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FODDERTY 3

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Canmore ID 368520 SCRAP ID 3284
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 51144 60803 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 15/11/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name FODDERTY Number 3
Other names
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Stone Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 51144 60803
Lat/Long 57.61257 -4.49339
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • Moved from 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.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.)

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing
  • Route way

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art

B5. Location Notes

The site lies on the S facing slope overlooking the River Peffery with Knockfarrel to the SSW, the Beauly Firth to the SE with the Cairngorms beyond and to the NW Ben Wyvis. The panel is on a large boulder and has a reduced view to the N but open views to the S and is on the W side of a burn which flows S into the River Peffery. The boulder sits beside and to the N of an informal track which begins at the field edge to the W and crosses the burn to the E. The ground rises to the N of the boulder and there are large gorse bushes to the N and S. The banks of the burn have trees and shrubs growing on both banks, the field is rough grazing with grass and heather. The recorders felt there was a possibility that the boulder has been moved from its original position. There are other boulders with rock art (Fodderty 1 and Fodderty 2) in the area.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Boulder/Slab

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 1.1 Width 1
Height (max) 0.4 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SW Carved Surface SW Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies No selection Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • No selection

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is on the upper flat surface of a large boulder measuring 1.1m in length by 1m in width and about 0.4m high and has a SSW facing slope. There is 1 large cup c.7cms in diameter and there may be a ring around this cup. Some distance away from the large cup, to the NE, is 4 smaller cups.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_7
4 1

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.
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.
Animal
Human
  • The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
Comments and other potential threats

Although the track is unsurfaced it appears to be used by farm machinery and there is the potential for the boulder to be damaged inadvertently.