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| Canmore ID |
259329 |
SCRAP ID |
220 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NH 40366 30883
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Team |
Not in team
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Existing Classifications
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| Classification |
Period |
| CUP MARKED STONE |
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 |
GLAICHOILE |
Number |
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| 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 And Ring Marked Rock |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
INVERNESS-SHIRE
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NH |
40366 |
30883 |
| New OS NGR |
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| Lat/Long |
57.34042 |
-4.65403 |
| 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.) |
Sloping |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SSW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
- Improved Pasture
- Rough Grazing
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Field System
- Settlement
- Ditch/Bank
B5. Location Notes
The panel lies in grazing on a S facing slope overlooking the River Enrick where several smaller burns join the main river. It is situated to the E of a landscape of Bronze Age remains, hut circles clearance cairns, field systems at Buntait and, on the other side of the river about 1km to the W, is Corrimony, a Clava type cairn. There is a minor road to Buntait about 300m to the S of the panel and the land then falls away to the river valley. The carved outcrop forms part of the edge of the slope with the remains of an enclosure wall immediately to the N, and the N edge of the outcrop is covered with a large juniper bush. There are the low footing remains of an old house 35m to the SE. At present the surrounding land is pasture with forestry and open moorland to the N and E.
Previous Notes
NH43SW 44 40366 30883
There are three cupmarks on the flat surface of an outcrop incorporated into the N wall of an enclosure within a ruined farmstead NE of Glaichoile (see NH43SW 43). The largest cup measures 100mm in diameter and 35mm in depth.
(URQ97 498)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 24 October 1997
C1. Panel Type
C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
8.5 |
Width |
5.5 |
| Height (max) |
3 |
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 |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Medium
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Gneiss
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C4. Surface Features
- Fissures/cracks
- Natural Hollows
- Weathering Channels
C5. Panel Notes
This is a large gneiss outcrop projecting 5.5m N-S from the edge of a slope to the N. The outcrop is 8.5m E-W and up to 3.0m high. The cup marks are on the nearly flat top of the outcrop which has a very slight slope to the S. There are 3 cupmarks with a possible 4th cupmark on the S part of the outcrop. Two of the cupmarks have faint rings around them. The surface of the outcrop is irregular with a number of deep fissures mainly running N-S some with grass growing in them and the whole outcrop is lichen covered.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
1 cupmark is a probable, and there is a possible faint ring around 1 cupmark
C7. MOTIFS
Cupmark
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2
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Cup and Rings
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1
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Other Ring
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2
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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.
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.
- There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.
Animal
Human
Comments and other potential threats
No comments added
