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| Canmore ID |
5649 |
SCRAP ID |
464 |
| Location OS Grid Ref: |
NC 60065 34648
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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 |
01/09/2020 |
Date Fieldwork Completed |
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| New Panel? |
No |
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A1. Identifiers
| Panel Name |
DUN CREAGACH |
Number |
1 |
| 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 Marked Stone |
Period 1 |
Neol/bronze Age |
County
SUTHERLAND
A2. Grid Reference(original find site)
| OS NGR |
NC |
60120 |
34660 |
| New OS NGR |
NC |
60065 |
34648 |
| Lat/Long |
58.27812 |
-4.38785 |
| 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 |
Bottom of hill |
| Topography(terrain within about 500m of panel.) |
Undulating |
| Aspect of slope (if on sloping terrain e.g. S, SE etc.) |
SW |
B2. Current land use & vegetation
B3. Forestry
B4. Archaeological Features within 200m / or visible from the panel
- Other rock art
- Settlement
- Clearance cairn(s)
- Hut circle(s)
B5. Location Notes
The panel lies on the W facing slope of a low knoll on the SE side of Loch Naver and the NW slopes of Ben Klebreck. A small unnamed burn lies about 50m to the SSW. The higher ground of the knoll is bracken covered but the panel lies in rough grass, heather and intermittent bracken. The panel is one of many boulders scattered across the slope. To the NW (c.25m) there is a degraded hut circle, visible as a scatter of boulders with the NW arc now below the turf. Dun Creagach 3 lies about 70m to the N and Dun Creagach 2 (Canmore 5650, ScRAP 2523) lies about 200m to the N. There is other archaeology in the area, more hut circles, Dun Creagach broch and Klibreck, a multiperiod settlement with a chapel site, a standing stone and a cross incised stone.
Previous Notes
NC63SW 5 6012 3466.
At NC 6012 3466 is a cup-marked boulder. The face inclined to the SW measures 1.7m by 1.5m and has about 65 cup marks upon it, some of which appear to be cojoined. The boulder is situated 30.0m from a hut circle (NC63SW 2).
Surveyed at 1:10,560.
Visited by OS (J B) 28 March 1977.
C1. Panel Type
| In the landscape |
Boulder/Slab |
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C2. Panel Dimensions, Slope & Orientation
Dimensions of panel (m to one decimal place)
| Length (longer axis) |
2 |
Width |
1.6 |
| Height (max) |
0.2 |
Height (min) |
0 |
Approximate slope of carved surface
Orientation (Aspect e.g. NW)
| Rock Surface |
SW |
Carved Surface |
SW |
Carved Surface |
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C3. Rock Surface
| Surface Compactness |
Hard
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Grain Size |
Fine
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Visible Anomalies |
Not Visible
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Rock Type |
Schist
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C4. Surface Features
C5. Panel Notes
This is a roughly triangular slab measuring 2 x 1.6m and set into the SW facing slope. There is a single deep fissure running NNW-SSE across the N end of the slab, and the 97 cupmarks are scattered randomly across the surface. Some of the cups appear to be conjoined, and others are joined by grooves. On the S corner of the slab there are several sharp-edged hollows. On the N vertical face there are 3 grooves, 2 shallow and 1 deeper, which do not appear to be associated with any cups. The stone is heavily covered with lichen and moss and heather covered the edges of the slab.
C6. Probability
The probability that there is any rock art on the panel is
Definite
Comments
4 oval cups
C7. MOTIFS
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.
- This panel is known to others in the local community.
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
Comments and other potential threats
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