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WEST COMRIE 2

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Canmore ID 368714 SCRAP ID 3273
Location OS Grid Ref: NH 39900 57179 Team Not in team
Existing Classifications None.
Date Fieldwork Started 05/04/2019 Date Fieldwork Completed
New Panel? Yes  

Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Panel Name WEST COMRIE Number 2
Other names Scatwell, Am Fireach,
HER/SMR SM Number Other
Classifications And Periods
Classification 1 Cup Marked Rock Period 1 Neol/bronze Age
County
ROSS AND CROMARTY

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

OS NGR
New OS NGR NH 39900 57179
Lat/Long 57.5762 -4.67898
Obtained By: Mobile Phone

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.) S

B2. Current land use & vegetation

  • Wood/Forest

B3. Forestry

  • Ploughed
  • Mounded
  • New Plantation

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

  • Other rock art
  • Cairnfield
  • Field System

B5. Location Notes

This panel is situated on a S facing slope near the top of a hill which forms part of the lip of easier ground to the N. It lies in a young commercial plantation with areas of mature trees nearby (100 to 300m distant). The panel is at an altitude of 172m and has wide views over Strathconon above the junction of the Rivers Conon and Meig. The cup marked rocks of West Comrie 3 and 5 are roughly 20m to the W and West Comrie 1 is about 60m to the E.

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) 3.6 Width 2
Height (max) 0.1 Height (min) 0
Approximate slope of carved surface
20 degrees degrees
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
Rock Surface SSE Carved Surface S Carved Surface

C3. Rock Surface

Surface Compactness Hard Grain Size Medium Visible Anomalies Other: mica Rock Type Schist

C4. Surface Features

  • Fissures/cracks
  • Natural Hollows
  • Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

This outcrop is a large slab of exposed bedrock almost flush with the ground and measuring 3.6 x 2m. It can be divided into two halves by its sloping surfaces. The W half slopes towards the S, and the E half, which is slightly steeper, slopes towards the SE. The majority of the cups are very weather-worn and are on the W half of the rock. Some appear to form tight clusters and arrangements. There are 25 cups, 1 dumbell and 5 further possible cups.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

The majority of the cups are very weather worn. There are 25 definite, 1 dumbell, and 5 possible cups

C7. MOTIFS

Cupmark
cupmark_1 cupmark_6
25 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
  • No selection
Comments and other potential threats

The panel is in an exposed position and subjected to any inclement weather coming from the west