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| Canmore ID |
23147 |
SCRAP ID |
187 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NM 90820 04230
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED ROCK |
PREHISTORIC |
| KNOCKING STONE |
PERIOD UNASSIGNED |
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| Date Fieldwork Started |
17/07/2019 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
FINCHARN |
Number |
2 |
| Other names |
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| HER/SMR |
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SM Number |
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Other |
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County
ARGYLL
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NM |
90820 |
04230 |
| New OS NGR |
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| Lat/Long |
56.18462 |
-5.37228 |
| Obtained By: |
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A3. Current Location & Provenance
| Located |
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| Accession no. |
Not given |
B1. Landscape Context
| Weather |
Rain
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| Position in landscape |
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| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
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| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
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B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
B5. Location Notes
This panel was not found despite an intensive search in the vicinity of the grid reference. It is presumably covered by thick turf.
Previous Notes
"NM90SW 4 9082 0423.
NM 907 042. Cup marks and a basin occur on fissured, horizontal outcrop 190 yds SE of the shepherd's cottage, 50 yds SW of the summit of a ridge, and 70 yds NE of the ruins of the village.
There are more than 70 cups up to 4" in diameter, and a round basin 10" x 9".
The area presently exposed measures roughly 1.0m square, but there is evidence that about 4.0m x 2.0m has been uncovered on two occasions, once about 1970 by unknown persons, and again more recently by Mr Petzch, 32 Canaan Lane, Edinburgh 10.
Surveyed at 1:10,000 during mid-Argyll inventory work by RCAHMS.
Three groups of decorated rock surfaces have been found close to the former shepherd's cottage at Fincharn.
On a horizontal rock surface about 140 m SE of the cottage, there are at least ninety weathered cupmarks accompanied by the basin of a knocking-stone (Petzsch 1972; 1973).
Visited May 1983
RCAHMS 1988"
NM90SW 4 9082 0423.
NM 907 042. Cup marks and a basin occur on fissured, horizontal outcrop 190 yds SE of the shepherd's cottage, 50 yds SW of the summit of a ridge, and 70 yds NE of the ruins of the village.
There are more than 70 cups up to 4" in diameter, and a round basin 10" x 9".
The area presently exposed measures roughly 1.0m square, but there is evidence that about 4.0m x 2.0m has been uncovered on two occasions, once about 1970 by unknown persons, and again more recently by Mr Petzch, 32 Canaan Lane, Edinburgh 10.
Surveyed at 1:10,000 during mid-Argyll inventory work by RCAHMS.
Three groups of decorated rock surfaces have been found close to the former shepherd's cottage at Fincharn.
On a horizontal rock surface about 140 m SE of the cottage, there are at least ninety weathered cupmarks accompanied by the basin of a knocking-stone (Petzsch 1972; 1973).
Visited May 1983
RCAHMS 1988
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
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Width |
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| Height (max) |
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Height (min) |
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Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
No selection
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Grain Size |
No selection
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Visible Anomalies |
No selection
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Rock Type |
No selection
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
No notes added
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
not mentioned
Comments
No comments added
C7. MOTIFS
Visible Tool Marks? No
Visible Peck Marks? No
D1. Access
D2. Awareness
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No
D3. Risk
Natural
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
