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LAGGAN HILL 3

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Canmore ID 285784 SCRAP ID 269
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 99966 25945 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications
Classification Period
CUP MARKED ROCK PREHISTORIC
Date Fieldwork Started 02/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? No  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name LAGGAN HILL Number 3
Other names Laggan Hill C
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
MORAYSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR NH 99964 25954
New OS NGR NH 99966 25945
Lat/Long 57.31306 -3.66236
Obtained By: GPS

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Located
  • At original location
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.) SE

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Field System
  • Settlement

B5. Location Notes

This panel is located close to the top of a SE facing slope with open views to the east and south, 10m SW of Laggan Hill 2, and c. 25m to the SE of the edge of an area of abandoned limestone quarrying. There are several other sloping outcrops in the proximity. The land is currently used for rough, sheep, grazing. There are the remains of post-medieval settlement and field systems in the area.

Previous Notes

NH92NE 4.03 99964 25954 This grey pink outcrop of mica schist is situated 9m SW of (NH92NE 4.02). It cannot be positively equated with any single set of carvings noted on the Ordnance Survey Record Card, but it is probably 'B', 'C' or 'D'. Its S face bears at least two cupmarks, one 75mm in diameter by 25mm in depth, the other 50mm by 25mm. Visited by RCAHMS (AG), 12 October 2006.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

In the landscape Outcrop

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
Length (longer axis) 2 Width 1.7
Height (max) 0 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
26 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SE Carved Surface Carved Surface SE

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Quartz Veins
 Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

A sloping, roughly triangular shaped panel measuring 2 x 1.7m (exposed area) in size, on an outcrop of bedrock. There are several distinct cracks across the panel. Four cup marks have been carved into the rock surface.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

No comments added

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1
4

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

  • No selection
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
  • There are sheep near the rock.
Human
  • There are quarries nearby.
Comments and other potential threats

The quarry is a historical site (not active).