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DRUIM MOR 7

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Canmore ID 368480 SCRAP ID 3003
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 57711 66167 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 20/08/2017 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name DRUIM MOR Number 7
Other names Druim Mor DS07
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Natural Feature Period 1 Period Unassigned
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 57711 66167
Lat/Long 57.66283 -4.38673
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 Top of hill
Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) Undulating
Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) E

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Rough Grazing

B3. Forestry

  • No selection

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

  • Other rock art
  • Burial Mound/Cairn

B5. Location Notes

This rock sits on an E facing undulating spur between two straths looking towards the Cromarty Firth and the Sutors. It is located 110m E of a stone dyke, with a medieval farmstead lying 100m to the SE. It lies in rough grazing and is part of the Drumore Scheduled group of cup marked rocks.

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 Width 0.8
Height (max) 0.3 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
0 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SE Carved Surface SE Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Coarse Visible Anomalies Other
Other: mica 		Rock Type Gneiss

C4. Surface Features

  • Natural Hollows
  • Rough surface

C5. Panel Notes

This rock is roughly rectangular, tapering on the E edge. There is one cup shaped depression on the highest point of the rock which is almost certainly a natural feature. The rock slopes away on all sides from this cup mark.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

One natural cupshaped depression,

C7. MOTIFS

Visible Tool Marks? No

Visible Peck Marks? No

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

  • Right to Roam access.

D2. Awareness

  • Panel was known before the project.
  • This panel is known to others in the local community.
There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural
  • No selection
Animal
  • There are sheep near the rock.
  • There are cattle near the rock.
Human
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

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