Rock Art Database

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Section A. CORE INFORMATION

A1. Identifiers

Classifications And Periods

County

DUNBARTONSHIRE

A2. Grid Reference(original find site)

A3. Current Location & Provenance

Section B. CONTEXT

B1. Landscape Context

B2. Current land use & vegetation

• No selection

Other:Open woodland in council owned park

B3. Forestry

• No selection

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

• No selection

B5. Location Notes

The panel is situated at ground level in gorse and open woodland on a flat terrace towards the bottom of a NW sloping hillside approximately 30m S of the burn. It is about 50m S of the houses and road at the N edge of Faifley and in an area that is a Council-owned public park. It lies almost beneath electricity cables and 55m SSW of a pylon.

Previous Notes

NS57SW 36 501 736 See also NS57SW 21, 33 and 71. Situated 90m (100 yds) NE of No. 53 Auchnacraig Rd., Clydebank, 45m (50 yds) W of electricity pylon XF 76 and SW of a deep gully, is a rough but mostly horizontal gritstone sheet 5m by 3 1/2m and up to 1/2m high (17ft x 12ft x 1 1/2ft) partly intersected by deep turf. On it are 3 cups-and-two-rings, 5 cups-and-one-ring, all much weathered and probably un-gapped, up to 17cm (7ins) diameters, some with radial or connecting grooves, and about 35 cups up to 2cm (1ins) deep. Much of this is only visible when wet in low sun. R W B Morris 1969; R W N Morris 1981; RCAHMS 1978.

Section C. PANEL

C1. Panel Type

C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation

C3. Rock Surface

C4. Surface Features

• Fissures/cracks
• Natural Hollows
• Bedding Planes
• Weathering Channels
• Smooth Surface

C5. Panel Notes

The panel is an exposed area of sandstone bedrock roughly 6.5x5m in extent. It has a slightly domed, undulating surface with a wide linear depression running E-W, and featuring several fissures and natural hollows. There is an area of eroded red paint on the S surface, with four sets of incised graffiti letters: PMA (incised twice), AT, and PA. There are multiple cup and ring carvings spread over the E and S sections on the larger part of the exposed surface, and a smaller group along the N edge of the wide depression. The carvings on the main part of the panel include 36 cups (some of which may be natural), 2 cups with long radial grooves, 2 cups with single rings, 4 cups with single rings and gapped second rings, 1 cup with a gapped ring, 1 cup with a gapped ring and radial, and 1 arc. The smaller group includes 1 cup, 1 cup with a single gapped ring, and a complex motif comprising 3 cups with intersecting rings, 2 of which also have inner intersecting rings.

C6. Probability

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

Comments

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C7. MOTIFS

Visible Tool Marks? Yes

Visible Peck Marks? Yes

Section D. ACCESS, AWARENESS & RISK

D1. Access

• Right to Roam access.
• Access is managed by a national organisation.

D2. Awareness

• This panel is known to others in the local community.

There are stories or folk traditions associated with this panel No

D3. Risk

Natural

• There are shrubs growing on the rock surface.

Animal

Human

• There is graffiti (paintings and/or carving) on or near the rock.
• The rock is located on/nearby a path or place where people might walk.
• This panel has been estimated to be seriously at risk of being damaged or destroyed.

Comments and other potential threats

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